mimeograph

Etymology

Coined by A. B. Dick in 1889 and originally a trade name. From Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos), combining form mimeo + -graph.

noun

1. (historical) A machine for making printed copies using typed stencil, eventually superseded by photocopying.
   So it also is in regard to the mimeograph, whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877. He had been long impressed by the desirability of the rapid production of copies of written documents, and, as we have seen by a previous chapter, he invented the electric pen for this purpose, only to improve upon it later with a more desirable device 1910, Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin, chapter 27, in Edison, His Life and Inventions
   The old “work horse” of the office, the mimeograph, was a starred performer at the National Business Show, which was recently held at the New York Coliseum. Although glamour equipment such as the electronic computers have had most of the headlines in recent years, the mimeograph machine is still grinding out billions of copies of material a year. 1956-11-08, Alexander R. Hammer, “Duplicator Still The ‘Work Horse’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

verb

1. To make mimeograph copies.