glue-boiler
A specialized profession practised in the developed world up to the early twentieth…A specialized profession practised in the developed world up to the early twentieth century that made, from particularly cattle bones, the adhesives used in for instance paperwork, bookbinding, joinery, ivory inlay.
Meaning
1 sensesA specialized profession practised in the developed world up to the early twentieth century that made, from particularly cattle bones, the adhesives used in for instance paperwork, bookbinding, joinery, ivory inlay.
Leimsieder, Leimkocher
клеева́рklejevár
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
By meaning 1
Origin
From glue + boil + -er.From glue + boil + -er.
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