bookbindery
[ boo k-bahyn-duh-ree ]
/ ˈbʊkˌbaɪn də ri /
noun, plural book·bind·er·ies.
Origin of bookbindery
An Americanism dating back to 1805–15;
bookbinder +
-ry
Words nearby bookbindery
book up,
book value,
book-keeping,
book-learning,
bookbinder,
bookbindery,
bookbinding,
bookcase,
bookcraft,
bookcrossing,
booked up
Example sentences from the Web for bookbindery
Silk is used in the bookbindery as end papers in extra work, and also for fancy goods and for lining boxes.
Practical Bookbinding |Paul AdamAt the bookbindery several women and girls are engaged to fold the sheets.
Travels Through North America, v. 1-2 |Berhard Saxe-Weimar EisenachThence into a back hall piled high with boxes and past the presses of a bookbindery to the freight elevator.
The Man in Lower Ten |Mary Roberts RinehartThere was a nineteen-year-old lad who, when I knew him two years before, was doing boy's work in the Collier bookbindery.
The U-boat hunters |James B. Connolly
British Dictionary definitions for bookbindery
bookbindery
/ (ˈbʊkˌbaɪndərɪ) /
noun plural -eries
a place in which books are bound
Often shortened to: bindery