This page gathers the 21 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Bookbinding”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples.
- antique verb To emboss without gilding.
- book board noun A sturdy, rigid sheet material used to form the cover of a hardcover book.
- crash noun tarlatan, mull.
- finger brush noun A specialized, often small, brush used in bookbinding and conservation to apply sizing or adhesives to book covers, particularly on leather…
- forward verb To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
- gathering noun A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
- gauffer verb To decorate the edges of a text block with a heated iron.
- gold blocking noun A technique where gold foil or another metallic foil is applied using heat and pressure from an engraved block or die to emboss designs or…
- knock up verb To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.
- lacing noun The cords by which the boards of a book are fastened to the back.
- leaf noun A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- oblong adj Having the horizontal axis of a page longer than the vertical; In landscape orientation.
- overcast verb To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.
- pager noun One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.
- plough verb To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
- quire verb To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
- ternion noun A section of paper for a book containing three double leaves or twelve pages.
- title noun The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
- tooled adj Impressed with an ornamental design.
- uncut adj Of a book, not having the page edges trimmed.
- whipping noun The sewing of the edges of single leaves in sections by overcasting the thread.