compositor's case

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• February 27. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  compositor's case — noun — english

  (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has his type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers; "for English, a compositor will ordinarily have two such cases, the upper case containing the capitals and the lower case containing the small letters"