printer's devil

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   an apprentice in a printing establishment

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Questions about printer's devil

What does printer's devil mean?

printer's devil means "an apprentice in a printing establishment".

Is printer's devil a common word?

printer's devil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.