gathering board
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
gathering board (plural gathering boards)
- (bookbinding) A table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.
- 1874, “United States Patent Office”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:
- To the rear of the machine is attached a gathering board on a horizontal line with a pivot in the roller about midway between the axis and top
References[edit]
- “gathering”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.