punchpress

English

Noun

punchpress (plural punchpresses)

  1. Alternative form of punch press
    • 1966, ERIC ED066512, ERIC, page 13 "punchpress" link
      Operates punchpress to rivet, stake, clamp, or press parts together.
    • 1955, Oklahoma Today Volume 6 Issue 2, page 5 link
      Right — LeRoy Daniels operates a punchpress, forming steel strip*
    • 1979, Cluster, Dick, They should have served that cup of coffee, South End Press, page 48 link
      Upstairs in the shop it was all white, they ran machines. Downstairs in the foundry, sheetmetal department, punchpresses, it was all Black.
    • 1991, Jagendorf, Siegfried, Jagendorf's foundry : memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941-1944, HarperCollins Publishers, page 99 link
      In the punchpress department, the governor saw metal fabricated into farm implements. In the carpenter shop, where a sculptor was
    • 2007, Pletka, Bob, Educating the net generation : how to engage students in the 21st century, Santa Monica Press, page 116 link
      My wife has never answered questions in the back of the book to learn how to operate her punchpress, use the trimmer, or scallop the edge of a matte for scrapbooking and yet she, her friends, and millions of others have learned to use the technologies, apply new designs, and create beautiful page layouts.
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