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mimeograph
[mim-ee-uh-graf, -grahf]
noun
a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
a copy made from a mimeograph.
verb (used with object)
to duplicate (something) by means of a mimeograph.
Mimeograph
/ ˈmɪmɪəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf /
noun
an office machine for printing multiple copies of text or line drawings from an inked drum to which a cut stencil is fixed
a copy produced by this machine
verb
to print copies from (a prepared stencil) using this machine
Other Word Forms
- unmimeographed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of mimeograph1
Example Sentences
Before World, a biweekly, was launched in 1986, religious periodicals were often cheaply mimeographed and filled with church news.
Democrats were essentially broke ahead of the 1972 campaign and dependent on an old mimeograph machine.
Steinem remembers the days in which hand-outs and calls to action were made on a primitive duplicating machine called a mimeograph.
“We did everything from mimeograph to walk door to door,” Molina said.
In response, a group of us got together and launched Agni as a mimeographed “underground” newspaper — because, as A.J.
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