standing-press

I was up to 160 pounds, and I could now bench-press 265 pounds with ease and standing-press 145 with either arm.

Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010

I was up to 160 pounds, and I could now bench-press 265 pounds with ease and standing-press 145 with either arm.

Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010

I was up to 160 pounds, and I could now bench-press 265 pounds with ease and standing-press 145 with either arm.

Crazy Loco Love Victor Villaseñor 2010

At fig. 22 is shown a French standing-press, in which the pressure is applied by a weighted wheel, which will, in the first place, by being spun round, turn the screw until it is tight, and give additional pressure by a hammering action.

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894

This press I have found to answer for all ordinary purposes, and to give as great pressure as can be got by the iron standing-press, without any undue strain on supports or workmen.

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894

A second pressing-board having been placed on the last tin, the pile of sections, tins, and pressing-boards can be put into the standing-press and left under pressure till next day.

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894

To do this, one board at a time is damped with a sponge and put in the standing-press, with a pressing plate on the grained side, and

Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Douglas Cockerell 1894

Annie's new-fangled closet for clothes, or standing-press, as she called it.

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

I told Ruth all about our Annie, and her noble furniture; and the little maid was very lively (although her wounds were paining her so, that half her laughter came ‘on the wrong side of her mouth,’ as we rather coarsely express it); especially she laughed about Annie’s new-fangled closet for clothes, or standing-press, as she called it.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004