| 释义 |
reback, v.|riːˈbæk|
[f. re- 5 a + back v. 2.]
trans. To replace the damaged spine of (a binding or book). So reˈbacked ppl. a., reˈbacking vbl. n.
1901D. Cockerell Bookbinding xxii. 305 Re-backing. Bindings that have broken joints may be re-backed. 1952J. Carter ABC for Book-Collectors 150 Re-backed. This means that the binding of the book has been given a new backstrip or spine. 1970Bodl. Libr. Rec. VIII. 192 Although it [sc. an eighteenth-century New Testament] has been rebacked and repaired..it is now very worn. 1981Sotheby's Catal. Printed Bks. 16 Mar. 34, 179 Lambarde (W.), Dictionarium Angliae Topographicum & Historicum, portrait, calf, rebacked, 1730. |
