folding-bone

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English

Noun

folding-bone (plural folding-bones)

  1. Synonym of bone folder
    • 1996, Heinz Götze, translated by Mary Schäfer, Springer-Verlag: History of a Scientific Publishing House, volume 2, Springer, page 233:
      On the opposite side of the spacious hall, however, sat approximately a dozen Indians with their legs crossed, busily folding the printed sheets that had been delivered with the folding-bone, by hand.