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noun

Binder n.

One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.

Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

A pair of stiff oblong covers, sometimes detachable, designed for insertion of paper pages to create a book-like document, such as in a loose-leaf binder.

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Etymology of 'Binder'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Binder" Quotes from Famous Books

... through the press, and were ready for the binder, we sent Mr. Slick a copy; and shortly afterwards received from him the following letter, which characteristic communication ...

— The Clockmaker • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... the counting-room, where they had an interview with a binder who had offered to do their work at one-tenth of a cent a hundred copies less than the concern with which they were then dealing. Archie said good-by to Gouger, and went off to find Roseleaf, with whom he had engaged to take, later in the day, ...

— A Black Adonis • Linn Boyd Porter

... farmer, yet he never in his life beheld a tomato, nor a cauliflower, nor an eggplant, nor a horserake, nor a drill, nor a reaper and binder, nor a threshing machine, nor ...

— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... the work of the Kelmscott Press in an eminent degree, holds true with but slightly abated force when applied to latter-day artistic book-making generally—as to type, paper, illustration, binding materials, and binder's work. The claims to excellence put forward by the later products of the bookmaker's industry rest in some measure on the degree of its approximation to the crudities of the time when the work of book-making ...

— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen

... the axe and do it for him; then at one tap the block would fly apart. There was no rule for this happy hit. Sometimes it was above the binding knot, sometimes beside it, sometimes right in the middle of it, and sometimes in the end of the wood away from the binder altogether—often at the unlikeliest places. Sometimes it was done by a simple stroke, sometimes a glancing stroke, sometimes with the grain or again angling, and sometimes a compound of one or more of each kind of blow; ...

— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton

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