"make a book" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a book",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a book",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a book",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a book",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a book"
      },
      "expansion": "make a book (third-person singular simple present makes a book, present participle making a book, simple past and past participle made a book)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1866, Henry John Rous, On the Laws and Practice of Horse Racing",
          "text": "it must be acknowledged that it is impossible to make a book on any important race without the security of Play or Pay",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lay bets (recorded in a pocketbook) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_a_book-en-verb-Bnu0f~RX",
      "links": [
        [
          "lay",
          "lay"
        ],
        [
          "bet",
          "bet"
        ],
        [
          "pocketbook",
          "pocketbook"
        ],
        [
          "success",
          "success"
        ],
        [
          "horse",
          "horse"
        ],
        [
          "bookmaker",
          "bookmaker"
        ],
        [
          "win",
          "win"
        ],
        [
          "unsuccessful",
          "unsuccessful"
        ],
        [
          "lose",
          "lose"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(horseracing, archaic) To lay bets (recorded in a pocketbook) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bookmaker"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "horseracing",
        "horses",
        "lifestyle",
        "pets",
        "racing",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a book"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a book",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a book",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a book",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a book",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a book"
      },
      "expansion": "make a book (third-person singular simple present makes a book, present participle making a book, simple past and past participle made a book)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bookmaker"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1866, Henry John Rous, On the Laws and Practice of Horse Racing",
          "text": "it must be acknowledged that it is impossible to make a book on any important race without the security of Play or Pay",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lay bets (recorded in a pocketbook) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lay",
          "lay"
        ],
        [
          "bet",
          "bet"
        ],
        [
          "pocketbook",
          "pocketbook"
        ],
        [
          "success",
          "success"
        ],
        [
          "horse",
          "horse"
        ],
        [
          "bookmaker",
          "bookmaker"
        ],
        [
          "win",
          "win"
        ],
        [
          "unsuccessful",
          "unsuccessful"
        ],
        [
          "lose",
          "lose"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(horseracing, archaic) To lay bets (recorded in a pocketbook) against the success of every horse, so that the bookmaker wins on all the unsuccessful horses and loses only on the winning horse or horses."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "horseracing",
        "horses",
        "lifestyle",
        "pets",
        "racing",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a book"
}