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Bookend

[book-end]

book·end

[book-end]
noun
a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.

Origin:
1905–10; book + end1
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bookend

noun
a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table) 
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