folding bone meaning: definition, quotations

folding bone

nounalso spelled folding-bone

Synonym of bone folder.

Without looking Lav knows she’s been given Saul's folding bone, the little stick he used for bookbinding. She rubs the worn ivory across her cheek. “Have a cup of tea before you go,” her mother says. Lav takes a cup and they sit, one on either side of the table that resembles a roughly hacked block of ice. She sips the tea slowly, holding the folding bone and the letter, muttering awkward thankyous.1994, Bernice Morgan, Waiting for Time, Breakwater, →ISBN, page 17:

noun

Synonym of bone folder.

On the opposite side of the spacious hall, however, sat approximately a dozen Indians with their legs crossed, busily folding the printed sheets that had been delivered with the folding-bone, by hand.1996, Heinz Götze, translated by Mary Schäfer, Springer-Verlag: History of a Scientific Publishing House, volume 2, Springer, page 233: