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Origin and history of binder

binder(n.)

Old English bindere "one who binds," agent noun from bind (v.). Of various objects or products that bind, from early 16c.

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bind(v.)

Old English bindan "to tie up with bonds" (literally and figuratively), also "to make captive; to cover with dressings and bandages" (class III strong verb; past tense band, past participle bunden), from Proto-Germanic *bindanan (source also of Old Saxon bindan, Old Norse and Old Frisian binda, Old High German binten "to bind," German binden, Gothic bindan), from PIE root *bhendh- "to bind." Of books, from c. 1400. Intransitive sense of "stick together, cohere" is from 1670s.

bookbinder(n.)

"one whose occupation is the binding of books," late 14c, from book (n.) + binder. Related: Bookbindery.

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