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glue boiler

glue boiler is the alternative spelling 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.

Forms of glue boiler

pluralglue boilers

Questions about glue boiler

What is glue boiler the alternative spelling of?
Glue boiler is the alternative spelling of glue-boiler.

Words near glue boiler in the dictionary

  1. glucuroxylan
  2. glucæmia
  3. glue
  4. glue board
  5. glue boards
  6. glue boiler
  7. glue boilers
  8. glue cell
  9. glue cells
  10. glue code
  11. glue dot

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