Meaning of frontstroke | Babel Free

Definitions

Of a typewriter: having typebars that are arranged in an arc above the keyboard and swing upward to strike the front of the platen.

not-comparable

Examples

“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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