What is a roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines called?
dossil — (Printing) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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