typebar
In some typewriters, an arm actuated by pressing the keys that carried the type to strike the ribbon to form a letter.
Noun
- In some typewriters, an arm actuated by pressing the keys that carried the type to strike the ribbon to form a letter.
- The speedy, well-engineered Underwood was eventually so successful that within a couple of decades, the vast majority of typewriters followed its model: They were single-shift, frontstroke, typebar typewriters with...
Origin
From type + bar.