glue-boiler

noun

Etymology

From glue + boil + -er.

  1. inherited from *būlijō
  2. inherited from bȳl
  3. inherited from bile
  4. formed as glue-boiler — “glue + boil + -er

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

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