glue-boiler
Meanings
noun
- 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.
Word forms
Etymology
From glue + boil + -er.
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