punchpress

plural punchpresses

1. alternativeAlternative form of punch press

   1966, ERIC ED066512, ERIC, page 13 link Operates punchpress to rivet, stake, clamp, or press parts together.

   4 more examples

   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.