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pantograph

[pan-tuh-graf, -grahf] / ˈpæn təˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /
NOUN
third rail
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I’m probably best known for the Pantograph series, and in Europe the intersecting staircase called Diagint.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 30, 2016

He is said to be worth about half a million dollars, with an income, including his $12,000-a-year salary as governor and dividends from the Bloomington Pantograph stock and other property, of about $50,000 a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pantograph doors on each side lead to the wide side decks for line handling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sharing their plans was Brother John's good Harvard friend Davis Merwin, who in Bloomington, Ill. was running his family's 99-year-old Pantograph, and running it well enough to make it top-flight among small-town papers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pantograph, the name given to a contrivance for copying a drawing or a design on an enlarged or a reduced scale.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin