printery Chiefly U.S.; also Austral. and Afr.
(ˈprɪntərɪ)
[f. printer: see -ery. Cf. imprimery.]
1. A printing-office.
| 1638 H. Peters in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. VI. 99 Wee have a printery here. 1657 W. Rand tr. Gassendi's Life Peiresc ii. 28 He would cause the Vatican Printery to be set on work again. 1864 Webster, Printery,..also, sometimes, a printing-office. 1894 N. Brit. Daily Mail 7 Sept. 2 The American Government,..and some of our colonies, had established Government printeries. 1921 Mencken Amer. Lang. (rev. ed.) 187 Printery..appeared very early, and..has been reinforced by many analogues, e.g., beanery, bootery [etc.]. 1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger x. 102 The Order owned..a share in a printery. 1969 Sydney Morning Herald 24 May 1/7 Mr Newton..watched the search for several minutes before announcing: ‘I'm bored with this. I'm off to the factory (a printery he operates in Canberra).’ 1973 New Journalist (Austral.) July–Aug. 6/2 The licence of 3KZ is owned by Industrial Printing and Publicity Co. Ltd. This began as a Labor printery. 1975 B. Garfield Hopscotch xxii. 226 An Evening Standard van..returning to the printery from its last delivery. 1979 V. S. Naipaul Bend in River xiv. 229 We didn't have many printeries in the town. |
2. A cotton-printing factory; = print-work 1.
| 1846 in Worcester citing Pitkin. 1903 Fabian News XIII. 34/2 [He] was head of a big calico printery. |