[f. Gr. κύκλος circle, wheel + STYLE, L. stilus.] Name of an apparatus for printing copies of writing.
It consists of a pen with a small toothed wheel at the point which cuts minute holes in specially prepared paper tightly stretched over a zinc plate; this paper is then used as a stencil-plate from which copies are printed. Hence cyclostyle apparatus, ink, pen, etc.
1883. Knowledge, 16 Feb. Advt., The Cyclostyle.
1887. Chicago Advance, 19 May, 306/1. She … prints it herself with the cyclostyle.
1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 17 June, 6/1. This is probably the last specimen of a cyclostyle-printed journal which will see the light in Mashonaland.
