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printer's devil

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print·er's devil (prntrz)
n.
An apprentice in a printing establishment.
[From the apprentice becoming black from the ink.]
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Noun1.printer's devil - an apprentice in a printing establishment
apprentice, prentice, learner - works for an expert to learn a trade
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But we must get down into the Vale again, and so away by the Great Western Railway to town, for time and the printer's devil press, and it is a terrible long and slippery descent, and a shocking bad road.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
I have sent, for your private consideration, a list of the contents of this curious piece, which I shall perhaps subjoin, with your approbation, to the third volume of my Tale, in case the printer's devil should continue impatient for copy, when the whole of my narrative has been imposed.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
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