glue-boiler

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glue +‎ boil +‎ -er

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glue-boiler (plural glue-boilers)

  1. 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.

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