frontstroke

English

Etymology

front +‎ stroke

Adjective

frontstroke (not comparable)

  1. Of a typewriter: having typebars that are arranged in an arc above the keyboard and swing upward to strike the front of the platen.
    Coordinate term: understroke
    • 2018, Mark J. P. Wolf, The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence:
      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 four-bank QWERTY keyboards, inked by a ribbon.
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