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glue-boilers

glue-boilers is the plural of glue-boiler.

Meaning of glue-boiler

Noun

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.

Questions about glue-boilers

What is glue-boilers the plural of?
Glue-boilers is the plural of glue-boiler.

Words near glue-boilers in the dictionary

  1. glue strip
  2. glue strips
  3. glue trap
  4. glue traps
  5. glue-boiler
  6. glue-boilers
  7. glue-gun
  8. glue-gunned
  9. glue-gunning
  10. glue-guns
  11. glue-on

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