[bahyn-der] 
| 1. | a person or thing that binds. |
| 2. | a detachable cover, resembling the cover of a notebook or book, with clasps or rings for holding loose papers together: a three-ring binder. |
| 3. | a person who binds books; a bookbinder. |
| 4. | Insurance. an agreement by which property or liability coverage is granted pending issuance of a policy. |
| 5. | Agriculture.
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| 6. | Chemistry. any substance that causes the components of a mixture to cohere. |
| 7. | Painting. a vehicle in which pigment is suspended. |
| 8. | (in powder metallurgy) a substance for holding compacted metal powder together while it is being sintered. |
| 9. | Building Trades.
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| 10. | British, Australian Slang. a large quantity, esp. of food. |
[stur-uh
p, stir-, stuhr-] | 1. | a loop, ring, or other contrivance of metal, wood, leather, etc., suspended from the saddle of a horse to support the rider's foot. |
| 2. | any of various similar supports or clamps used for special purposes. |
| 3. | Nautical. a short rope with an eye at the end hung from a yard to support a footrope, the footrope being rove through the eye. |
| 4. | Also called binder. (in reinforced-concrete constructions) a U-shaped or W-shaped bent rod for supporting longitudinal reinforcing rods. |
| 5. | Anatomy. stapes. |
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| bind·er (bīn'dər) n.
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binder bind·er (bīn'dər)
n.
A broad bandage, especially one encircling the abdomen.
stirrup stir·rup (stûr'əp, stĭr'-)
n.
See stapes.
binder
machine for cutting grain and binding it into bundles, once widely used to cut small grain such as wheat. The first patent was issued on a self-tie binder in 1850. The horse-drawn twine binder, first marketed in 1880, remained the chief method of harvesting small grain during the early decades of the 20th century. The mechanical twine knotter was patented in 1892 in the United States. Along with the header, which cut off the heads of grain and elevated them into a wagon for later threshing, the binder was standard harvesting equipment in the wheat-producing areas of the United States and Canada until the grain combine was adopted in the 1930s. Binders, using twine, not wire, were still used in the late 20th century to a limited extent on small farms.
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