overcast

en-verb

overcast (third-person singular simple present overcasts, present participle overcasting, simple past and past participle overcast)

overcasts (present singular third-person)
overcasting (participle present)
overcast (participle past)
overcast (past)

/ˈəʊvəˌkɑːst/

/ˌəʊvəˈkɑːst/

From Middle English overcasten, equivalent to over- + cast. Compare Swedish överkast.

(transitive, bookbinding) To fasten (sheets) by overcast stitching or by folding one edge over another.


pager

From page + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 3).

(bookbinding) One who makes up type into pages of a book; one who binds or sorts pages into a book.


leaf

en-noun

leaf (countable and uncountable, plural leaves)

Tok Pisin: lip

From Middle English leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“leaf, rind”)
See also West Frisian leaf, Low German Loov, Dutch loof, German Laub, Danish løv, Swedish löv, Norwegian Nynorsk lauv, Icelandic lauf; also Irish luibh (“herb”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Lithuanian lúoba (“bark”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Latvian luba (“plank, board”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”).
(Internet slang: Canadian): In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.

flat-leaf parsley

Petroselinum crispum neapolitanum group; syn. Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum

Heretofore advertisers have had to buy and pay for a leaf — two pages.

1900, Profitable Advertising, volume 10, number 2, page 893:

(publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).


antique

en-adj

antique (comparative antiquer, superlative antiquest)

antiquer (comparative)
antiquest (superlative)

Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante-. Doublet of antic.


antique

en-verb

antique (third-person singular simple present antiques, present participle antiquing, simple past and past participle antiqued)

antiques (present singular third-person)
antiquing (participle present)
antiqued (participle past)
antiqued (past)

(transitive, bookbinding) To emboss without gilding.


quire

From Middle English quayer, from Anglo-Norman quaier and Old French quaer, from Latin quaternus (“fourfold”), from quater (“four times”). Doublet of cahier.

(bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.


quire

quire (third-person singular simple present quires, present participle quiring, simple past and past participle quired)

quires (present singular third-person)
quiring (participle present)
quired (participle past)
quired (past)

Now, in the first folio volume of 1616, the paging, signatures, and quiring are continuous and regular throughout.

1870, William White, Notes and Queries, volume 42:

This is a natural point at which to ask why quiring went out of fashion.

1938, The Dolphin: A Journal of the Making of the Books, number 3:

By means of these smooth pages we can mostly see how the modern binder made up the book, but whether in doing this he followed the original quiring is quite another matter.

1976, Alfred William Pollard, Alfred William Pollard: A Selection of his Essays:

(bookbinding) To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.


forward

forward (third-person singular simple present forwards, present participle forwarding, simple past and past participle forwarded)

forwards (present singular third-person)
forwarding (participle present)
forwarded (participle past)
forwarded (past)

Dutch: forwarden

From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore + -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”).

der

(transitive, bookbinding) To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.


plough

en-verb

plough (third-person singular simple present ploughs, present participle ploughing, simple past and past participle ploughed)

ploughs (present singular third-person)
ploughing (participle present)
ploughed (participle past)
ploughed (past)

From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English plōh (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *plōgaz, *plōguz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, North Frisian plog, West Frisian ploech, Low German Ploog, Dutch ploeg, Russian плуг (plug), German Pflug, Danish plov, Swedish and Norwegian plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.

der

(bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.


title

⇒ Wu: 抬頭 /抬头 (⁶de-deu)

→ Japanese: タイトル (taitoru)

→ Korean: 타이틀 (taiteul)

→ Welsh: teitl

From Middle English title, titel, from Old English titul (“title, heading, superscription”), from Latin titulus (“title, inscription”). Doublet of tilde, titer/titre, titlo, tittle, and titulus.

doublet

(bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.


knock up

en-verb

knock up (third-person singular simple present knocks up, present participle knocking up, simple past and past participle knocked up)

knocks up (present singular third-person)
knocking up (participle present)
knocked up (participle past)
knocked up (past)

to knock up printed sheets

(bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.


whipping

en-noun

whipping (countable and uncountable, plural whippings)

(bookbinding) The sewing of the edges of single leaves in sections by overcasting the thread.


gathering

From Middle English gadering, from Old English gaderung (“gathering, assembly”), equivalent to gather + -ing (verbal noun ending).

inh

/ˈɡæð.ə.ɹɪŋ/

This gathering machine forms the backbone of a bookbinding operation.

(bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.


tooled

en-adj

tooled (comparative more tooled, superlative most tooled)

more tooled (comparative)
most tooled (superlative)

A few sets of tooled leather bindings were set out on narrow polished tables, between book ends.

1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 22:

(bookbinding) Impressed with an ornamental design.


lacing

(bookbinding) The cords by which the boards of a book are fastened to the back.


quinternion

From quint- + -ernion, a suffix built from the ending of quaternion.

(bookbinding) Five gathered sheets of paper folded in two for binding together.

quinterno

five gathered sheets of paper folded in two


dentelle

(bookbinding) An ornamental tooling like lace.


ternion

From Latin ternio, from terni (“three each”). See tern (adjective).

(bookbinding) A section of paper for a book containing three double leaves or twelve pages.


full-bound

full-bound (comparative more full-bound, superlative most full-bound)

more full-bound (comparative)
most full-bound (superlative)

(bookbinding) Bound entirely in leather.


gathering board

en-noun

gathering board (plural gathering boards)

To the rear of the machine is attached a gathering board on a horizontal line with a pivot in the roller about midway between the axis and top

1874, “United States Patent Office”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:

(bookbinding) A table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.


kettle stitch

(bookbinding) The stitch made in sewing at the head and tail of a book.


divinity calf

(bookbinding) calfskin stained dark brown and worked without gilding, often used for theological books


overcaster

[…] if it is desired to prolong for some special reason the life of the book without incurring the expense of a careful repair by an experienced overcaster.