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- Composing_stick comment "In letterpress printing and typesetting, a composing stick is a tool used to assemble pieces of metal type into words and lines which are then transferred to a galley before being locked into a forme and printed. Many composing sticks have one adjustable end allowing the length of the lines and consequent width of the page or column to be set, with spaces and quadrats of different sizes being used to make up the exact width.".