"imposing stone" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "imposing stones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "imposing stone (plural imposing stones)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Printing",
          "orig": "en:Printing",
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            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841, Thomas Curson Hansard, Treatise on Printing and Type-founding",
          "text": "[The printer] gathers the letters marked as corrections in the margin, together with a quantity of spaces of all sizes, and returns to the forms, which in the meanwhile one of them has laid up on the imposing-stones and unlocked.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Clifford Wilson Hague, Textbook of Printing Occupations, page 137",
          "text": "Imposition is the process of arranging type forms in the desired position for printing so that they may be locked-up om readiness for the press. It is commonly known as stone-work to the practical printer, because the forms are placed and handled on an imposing stone, and the workmen are known as Impositors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Technical Manual: TM 8-290: Craft Techniques in Occupational Therapy, United States Department of the Army, page 12-25",
          "text": "After the type form has been proofed, corrected, and tied up again, it is ready for printing and must be locked up. This is done on the imposing stone (called a stone because of the flat marble or sandstone on top of the imposing table.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The stone on which the pages or columns of type are imposed or made into forms."
      ],
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          "type"
        ],
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(printing, historical) The stone on which the pages or columns of type are imposed or made into forms."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "imposing table"
        },
        {
          "word": "stone editor"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "media",
        "printing",
        "publishing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "imposing stone"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "imposing stones",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "imposing stone (plural imposing stones)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "imposing table"
    },
    {
      "word": "stone editor"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Printing"
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        {
          "ref": "1841, Thomas Curson Hansard, Treatise on Printing and Type-founding",
          "text": "[The printer] gathers the letters marked as corrections in the margin, together with a quantity of spaces of all sizes, and returns to the forms, which in the meanwhile one of them has laid up on the imposing-stones and unlocked.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Clifford Wilson Hague, Textbook of Printing Occupations, page 137",
          "text": "Imposition is the process of arranging type forms in the desired position for printing so that they may be locked-up om readiness for the press. It is commonly known as stone-work to the practical printer, because the forms are placed and handled on an imposing stone, and the workmen are known as Impositors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Technical Manual: TM 8-290: Craft Techniques in Occupational Therapy, United States Department of the Army, page 12-25",
          "text": "After the type form has been proofed, corrected, and tied up again, it is ready for printing and must be locked up. This is done on the imposing stone (called a stone because of the flat marble or sandstone on top of the imposing table.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "The stone on which the pages or columns of type are imposed or made into forms."
      ],
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        "(printing, historical) The stone on which the pages or columns of type are imposed or made into forms."
      ],
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        "historical"
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        "printing",
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  "word": "imposing stone"
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