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Print′er's gage.

a. A four-sided stick for measuring the work of a compositor. Each side of the stick is a gage for a particular type.

b. A rule cut to the length of a page, by which to break matter in making up pages.

c. A trial piece of furniture of proper size to regulate the distance between pages in imposing a form. The furaiture is then cast or made up to such a size as, in conjunction with the chase-bars, to equal the gage.

Other gages are used in cutting and mitering rules, selling composing-sticks, etc.

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