gathering board

English

Noun

gathering board (plural gathering boards)

(bookbinding) A table or board on which signatures are gathered or assembled, to form a book.
- 1874, “United States Patent Office”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office:
  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

References

“gathering”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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