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What is a reglet?

What is a reglet? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (printing) A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title pages and other open matter. [from 17th c.]
  2. (architecture) A flat, narrow moulding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. [from 17th c.]
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Furniture Racks and CabinetsFor labor-saving fonts of reglet, wood furniture, soft metal or steel furniture, etc.
If there are to be a number of pages, a page gage should be made from a strip of reglet or brass rule.
A reglet plane was used to make the strips of wood used to space type in hand typesetting.
A steel ruler and a good eye should give you a good idea: all you have to do is to put the reglet on the twelfth fret and read the measure.

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