n. A person who binds. Specifically— One who binds books; a bookbinder.n. One who binds sheaves.n. Anything that binds, in any sense of that verb.n. In bricklaying, a header which extends partly through a wall; a bonder.n. In carpentry, a tie-beam; a binding-joist serving as a transverse support for the bridging-joists above and the ceiling-joists below.n. An attachment to a sewing-machine for folding an edge or a binding.n. In agriculture: An attachment to a reaper for tying the bundles of grain.n. A separate horse-power machine for gathering up and binding grain already cut.n. An arrester or stop for the shuttle of a loom.n. A temporary cover for loose sheets of music, papers, etc.n. plural Same as binding, 4.n. In lumbering, a springy pole used to tighten a binding-chain. Also called a jim-binder.n. In machinery, a crank-shaft journal-box or bearing on an engine.n. In obstetrics, a broad cloth band applied snugly to the abdomen after the termination of labor.n. A firm leaf inclosing the filler in a cigar and itself surrounded by the wrapper. It grades, in market value, below the wrapper and above the filler.n. Indurated argillaceous shales or clay very commonly forming the roof of a coal-seam and frequently containing clay ironstone.