presser beam

English

Noun

presser beam (plural presser beams)

1. (science fiction) Alternative form of pressor beam
   • 1931 September, E. E. "Doc" Smith, “Spacehounds of IPC”, in Amazing Stories, volume 6, number 6, page 544:

     We'll have them in three days, and it ought to be fairly simple to dope out the opposite of a tractor, too—a pusher or presser beam.