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▪ I. folder, n.|ˈfəʊldə(r)|
[f. fold v.1 + -er1.]
One who or that which folds. a. gen. Also folder up.
1552Huloet, Folder, rugator, Folder vp of clothes or garmentes, vestiplicus. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 148 Women are employed..as compositors, as well as folders and stitchers. 1885Crane Bookbinding iv. 30 With..the ‘head’ on top of the pages farthest from the folder. 1891Econ. Jrnl. I. 641 Folders up: Men, 17s. 5d.; Women, 10s. 9d.
b. An instrument for folding paper, etc.
1846in Worcester. 1886N.Y. Herald 27 Oct. 6/3 The press is a new Hoe perfecting machine, with a folder attached.
c. (See quot. 1867.)
d. (See quot. 1874.)
e. U.S. A sheet or leaf (e.g. a map or time-table) which can be folded up.
f. (See quot. 1884.)
g. An insect that folds leaves, a leaf-folder. (Cent. Dict.)
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Folder, the movable sight of a fire-arm. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 899 Folder..2. a form of spectacles in which the lenses fold together for the pocket. 1884Ibid. IV. 353 Folder (Sheet Metal Working), a machine for turning locks or tapping edges of cans. 1889Scribner's Mag. Aug. 219/1 The time table sheets or folders, which every company must keep on hand at its stations.
h. A folding case or cover for loose papers.
1911H. S. Harrison Queed 329 West went to a filing cabinet..pulled out a large folder marked, Reformatory. 1922Brit. Stationer 11 Dec. 66 Folders for name and number system. 1930A. Palmer Company Secretarial Pract. 182 To file the copies in a folder. 1950E. Bowen Coll. Impressions p. vi, These are impressions..which, by force of continuing to be written and of having been kept in a folder, have collected themselves.
▪ II. † ˈfolder, v. Obs.—1
[variant form of falter v.]
1617Markham Caval. vii. xlix. 67 The Horsse wil in his going reele and folder. |