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bookbinder

bookbinder

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A person who joins pages and covers to make or repair books
  • noun
  • /ˈbʊkˌbaɪndər/
: encuadernador
  • Menaseh had already completed his cheder studies, and after the fall holidays, he was to be apprenticed to a bookbinder.
  • printers and bookbinders

Examples

  • In Europe, her family had been bookbinders.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • "I have phoned several bookbinders, and they all say the same thing."

    Fiction book (1990)
  • And I could have a bookbinder insert them.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • For instance, I'm a bookbinder in my spare time.

    Blog text (28)
  • He's a bookbinder who takes pride in his work.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Writing this book may help you find out what happened to Abolfath, the bookbinder.

  • Once a month, he collected mending from an old bookbinder whose fingers had grown too stiff to keep up with all the work.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Menaseh lives with his uncle, "a poor glazier," and is to be apprenticed to a bookbinder.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • He spent an entire evening, Tokay in hand, ruminating on the wonders of the roof tiler, the bookbinder, the wine seller, the silk thrower, and the basketmaker.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • As a skilled bookbinder, she carefully attached the cover to the pages of the novel.

Surface Forms

bookbinder singular
bookbinders plural

Morphology

bookbinder = book + binder (transparent) = book + bind + er

Formed by compounding 'book' + 'binder' (where 'binder' = bind + -er); the meaning 'a person who binds books' is directly derivable.

Etymology

Bookbinder is made of the simple parts book and binder, where the root bind means 'to tie' or 'to fasten' pages together. So a bookbinder is a person who puts a book's pages and cover together and makes them stay in one piece.