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noun
A specialized profession practised in the developed world up to the early twentieth century that made, from particularly cattle bones, the adhesives used in for instance paperwork, bookbinding, joinery, ivory inlay.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From glue + boil + -er.
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