单词 | reback |
释义 | rebackv. Originally and chiefly Bookbinding. transitive. To attach a new back to (something); esp. to replace the damaged spine of (a binding or book). ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bind [verb (transitive)] > other processes to knock up1660 glair1755 board1813 lace1818 crop1824 beback1858 plough1873 cord1876 to throw out1880 guillotine1896 pull1901 reback1901 super1914 1817 [see rebacked adj. at Derivatives]. 1821 T. F. Dibdin Bibliogr. Tour II. xxviii. 314 A glorious and perhaps matchless copy. Yet it is rebacked, in modern binding, in a manner..almost shameful! 1893 W. F. Clay Catal. 16 4to, diced russia, neatly rebacked. 1901 D. Cockerell Bookbinding xxii. 305 Re-backing. Bindings that have broken joints may be re-backed. 1970 Bodl. Libr. Rec. 8 192 Although it [sc. an 18th-cent. New Testament] has been rebacked and repaired..it is now very worn. 1982 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 June b1 The three sets of French wallpaper by du Four et LeRoy..were carefully removed, restored and rebacked. 2001 L. E. Semler Eliza's Babes Introd. 44 Its covers look to be possibly of the seventeenth century, but the book has been rebacked. Derivatives reˈbacked adj. ΚΠ 1817 13th Rep. Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc. p. xxiii Nonpareil type, with hollow back, re-backed. 1952 J. Carter ABC for Book-collectors 150 Re-backed. This means that the binding of the book has been given a new backstrip or spine. 1983 J. J. Walsdorf William Morris in Private Press & Limited Editions App. 449 Folio, oak boards, leather, stamped with double-headed eagles, fleurs-de-lis, etc. (Rebacked.) reˈbacking n. ΚΠ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 32/1 The back..is removed for rebacking of any waistcoat, and the satin thrown away. 1901 D. Cockerell Bookbinding xxii. 305 Re-backing. Bindings that have broken joints may be re-backed. 2006 Times (Nexis) 3 Apr. 21 Dr Williams's copy is a clean, tall copy in an attractive, but plain, mid-17th-century calf binding, exactly what modern taste would prefer, despite an early rebacking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1817 |
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