bindern.

1556 Charter Stationers Co. in J. Entick New Hist. London (1766) IV. 227 Any..printer, binder or seller of any manner of books.

1705 T. Hearne Diary (1885) I. 57 This was discovered by the binder.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter i. 26 There are binders who have immortalized themselves.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xviii. 516 Three binders stood, and took the handfuls reapt From boys that gather'd quickly up.

1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 159 One man follows the two binders, to stook the corn.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad II. xviii. 226 Binders tied them fast With bands, and made them sheaves.

1695 P. Motteux tr. F. Pidou de St. Olon Present State Morocco 94 Nothing on their Heads but a single Veil or Binder.

1787 S. Trimmer Œcon. Charity 79 Plain linen caps, with binders herring-boned with coloured cruel.

1861 Year-bk. Med. & Surg. 359 The use of the obstetric binder.

1868 Daily News 3 Sept. The binder and wimple were placed on the head [of a nun].

1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 92 In plain-work, the linings [are] generally called ‘binders’, e.g. the binders in a shirt, or night-dress, or shift.

1885 Cheshire Gloss. (E.D.S.) Binders, narrow strips of thick hempen cloth..put round cheeses..to prevent them bulging.

1887 Northern Notes & Queries Dec. 150 Small heart-shape brooches..fixed to the binders of babies to protect them from the witches and fairies.

1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes II. §29 Performance is a binder.

1621–31 W. Laud Seven Serm. (1847) 99 Justice and judgment is the greatest binder up of a State.

1643 J. Caryl Nature Sacred Covenant 5 A Covenant is a binder of affection.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xxii. 212 Though batchelours be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders in the hedge of the Commonwealth.

1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ (ed. 2) 207 I compare..the Sinews or Nerves to the binders of the hedge; which fasten and unite all the other parts.

1845 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 122 It makes an admirable binder of the moveable sands.

1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox 55 The binders crashed as hounds went over.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 541 A double floor consists in its thickness of..timbers..called binding joists... The binders..run from wall to wall.

1857 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1856–7 2 120 A self raker, and even a binder, may be just as simple..as some hand raker.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1891/2 1850. Heath's binder, with a reciprocating rake beneath the platform. 1851. Watson's automatic binder.

1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. v. 89 The light steel binder..is produced wholesale in..[Canada] for £28 each.

1945 ‘G. Orwell’ Animal Farm v. 39 Electricity..could operate threshing machines..and reapers and binders.

1865 Morning Star 30 May A policeman produced a steel binder belonging to a sewing machine.

1837 U.S. Patent 26 Dec. Binder for newspapers.

1964 Which? July 224/1 All new members get an index when they join CA (which can be kept in the binder pocket).

1678 W. Salmon tr. Pharmacopœia Londinensis i. 416/2 The Bone-Binder..speedily glews broken Bones together.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Elements The Elements of Metals, are Sulphur and Mercury alone; Mercury as the Base, or Matter, and Sulphur as the Binder, or Cement.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 91/1 Binding agent or binder, the basic material of disc records, chiefly shellac, which causes the various materials to adhere together and form, after heating, a solid mass.

1957 Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol.: Pt. II (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 23 Binder,..the component of a glue primarily responsible for the adhesive forces.

1901 G. W. Tillson Street Pavements viii. 230 It was deemed best to change..the method of construction and for the cushion-coat to substitute a so-called binder, made up of coarse stones held together by asphaltic cement. This binder has been laid of different thicknesses, sometimes 1½ or even 2 inches. Its object..is simply to serve as a medium between the wearing surface and the concrete.

1908 Chambers's Jrnl. 29 Aug. 624/1 A light binder of clay and gravel is added to the second coating of stone.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 392/1 Upon the concrete foundation is first spread a layer of fine bituminous concrete called ‘binder’, 1½ in. thick, to unite the wearing surface to the concrete foundation. Upon the binder the asphalte is laid to a thickness of 2 in.

1937 Times 13 Apr. (Brit. Motor No.) p. viii/3 The principle is the same as that of the ordinary tar~macadam road, but cement mortar is used as the ‘binder’ in the place of tar.

1922 M. Toch How to paint Permanent Pictures 33 The decorations made by the Egyptians were made without any binder other than the lime naturally found in the soil, and in a few cases the glue was used.

1922 M. Toch How to paint Permanent Pictures 34 There are some really wonderful decorative [Egyptian] paintings in which binders were used. The portraits..in the second century were done with wax and resins.

1934 H. Hiler Notes Technique Painting iii. 144 These media, or binders, each require a different manner and method in their use.

1951 R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. (new ed.) i. 19 Tempera paint films are adequately strong and durable, but when dry the volume of binder in relation to the volume of pigment is less than that of oil paints.

1930 T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 679 More books go to you almost at once. You'll find some of the packets have quite decent things amongst them—though generally they are what the troops call my ‘binders’.

1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 54/1 Binder, a bore (person).

1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 13 Bind, a depressing job or situation, one who is a bore. Used as a verb it suggests a petty or depressing order or regulation... Thus, ‘It's a perfect bind, old boy’, or ‘Smith's got his tapes: I suppose he'll be binding everyone now’, or ‘He's the worst binder I ever served under’... Binds you rigid, binds you stiff, bores you completely.

1944 E. Partridge in 19th Cent. 135 184 A person..who is a grouser or a fault-finder is termed a binder.