press key (preske)

A small turn-screw used by book-sewers to tighten the cords of a sewing-pre . pre lyt (pres'li), adv. [Appar. Though he may pursue his task presly and coherently, yet, because of the small importance of the matter debated of, his discourse must needs be both very tedious and not very profitable. Parker , Platonicke Philosophie (2d ed., 1667), p. 39. No man ever spake more neatly, more pre ly , more weightily. B. Jonson, Works (ed. Gifford), p. 749. pre man1 (pres'man), n.; pl. pre men (-men). [ wine-pre . One only path to all, by which the pre emen came In time of vintage. Chapman , Iliad, xviii. 2. One who operates or has charge of a printing-pre ; specifically, a printer who does pre work; one who runs a hand-pre , or who manages a pre or pre es run by steam or other power. Watts, after some weeks, desiring to have me in the composing-room, I left the pre men . Franklin , Autobiog., p. 147. 3. In journalism , sometimes, a man employed on the pre ; a writer or reporter for a newspaper. pre man2 (pres'man), n.; pl. pre men (-men). [