toggle press

A form of pre having especial value for many purposes, as the motion of the platen is more rapid at the time when the toggle bars are starting from the point of their greatest flexion, and, as they straighten out, the power increases and rate diminishes as the point of ultimate pre ure on the bale is approached. One of the most familiar forms is the Stanhope printing-pre , in which the platen is depre ed by a toggle and raised by springs. The movement is variously known as a knuckle, knee, or elbow movement, and is also used for making electrotype molds from type, and for compre ing bales of cotton, hay, . tõgş, s. pl. [Cf. toggery.] Clothes, dre . ( Slang.) "Look at his togs, superfine cloth and the heavy swell cut."- Dickens: Oliver Twist, ch. xvi. toil, *toyle, v . i . & t . [A word of doubtful origin. Skeat refers it to O. French touiller =to mix filthily together, to begrime, to besmear; others to O. Dut. tuylen to till or manure lands; tuyl =agriculture, labor, toil. A. S. tilian , teolian =to labor, to strive after, is not connected.] A. In trans.: To exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, but particularly of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration; to labor, to work, to struggle. "But when he toiled those squadrons to array, Who fought like Britons in the bloody game." Scott: Don Roderick , Concl. xv. *B. Transitive: IMG:content-1192.png:[blocks in formation] "With beating heart to the task he went. Till the toil -drops fell from his brows like rain.” Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel , ii. 13. toil-worn, a. Worn out or exhausted with toil. toil (2), *toyle (2), subst . [Fr. toile =cloth, linen a stalking-horse of cloth; pl. toiles =a snare, from Lat. tela =a web, a thing woven, from tero to weave.] A net or snare; a web, string, or the like set to catch prey. (Now generally in the plural.)