Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One whose occupation is the binding of books.
  • noun A binder for preserving loose printed sheets, etc. See binder, 8.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One whose occupation is to bind books.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a person whose profession is binding pages together to form a book

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a worker whose trade is binding books

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Examples

  • As such he wrote the following poem: _The trade of a bookbinder is the worst of all; its leaves and its fruits are nought but disappointment.

    A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions 1903

  • It's a unique opportunity to purchase works of art that have been created on washi by talented artists such as bookbinder,

    blogTO 2008

  • It's a unique opportunity to purchase works of art that have been created on washi by talented artists such as bookbinder,

    blogTO 2008

  • It's a unique opportunity to purchase works of art that have been created on washi by talented artists such as bookbinder,

    blogTO 2008

  • It's a unique opportunity to purchase works of art that have been created on washi by talented artists such as bookbinder,

    blogTO 2008

  • The next day I bought five hand-tooled leather journals from a bookbinder named Ustino and began writing in one of them at Locanda Cipriani, a restaurant in a quince orchard on a tiny island called Torcello.

    My Perfect Honeymoon (That I Spent Alone) Jennifer Belle 2011

  • Ariel Zambelich for The Wall Street Journal The bookbinder uses a special sewing machine to bind the pages.

    The Craft of Binding Books 2011

  • Emma is a bookbinder who creates gorgeous notebooks, often rescuing old bookcovers and legal documents to create her notebooks.

    Welcome to my office « Write Anything 2010

  • And if you happen to own a battered treasure that needs restoring, there's a bookbinder here, too.

    Independent bookshops in south-east England 2011

  • I would love to have been trained as a bookbinder.

    A Conversation with Carol Shields 2010

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