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Webster 1913 Edition

Binding

Bind′ing

,
Adj.
That binds; obligatory.
Binding beam
(Arch.)
,
the main timber in double flooring.
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Binding joist
(Arch.)
,
the secondary timber in double-framed flooring.
Syn. – Obligatory; restraining; restrictive; stringent; astringent; costive; styptic.

Bind′ing

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Noun.
1.
The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.
2.
Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling.
3.
pl.
(Naut.)
The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

Webster 1828 Edition

Binding

BI'NDING

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ppr.
Fastening with a band; confining; restraining; covering or wrapping; obliging by a promise or other moral tie; making costive; contracting; making hard or stiff.

BI'NDING

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Adj.
That obliges; obligatory; as the binding force of a moral duty or of a command.

BI'NDING

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Noun.
The act of fastening with a band or obliging; a bandage; the cover of a book, with the sewing and accompanying work; any thing that binds; something that secures the edge of cloth.
1.
In the art of defense, a method of securing or crossing the adversary's sword with a pressure, accompanied with a spring of the wrist.
Binding-joists, in architecture, are the joists of a floor into which the trimmers of staircases, or well holes of the stairs and chimney ways, are framed.

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