Usually means: Stiff cotton cloth for bookbinding.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word buckram:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. buckram: Merriam-Webster
  2. buckram: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. buckram: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. buckram: Collins English Dictionary
  5. buckram: Vocabulary.com
  6. Buckram, buckram: Wordnik
  7. buckram: Wiktionary
  8. buckram: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. buckram: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. buckram: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Buckram, buckram: Dictionary.com
  12. buckram: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Buckram: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Buckram: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. buckram: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. buckram: Rhymezone
  17. Buckram: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. buckram: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. buckram: FreeDictionary.org
  20. buckram: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. buckram: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. buckram: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. buckram: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. buckram: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Embroidery Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Textile (No longer online)
  4. Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See buckramed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
noun:  A crab that has just molted; a papershell.
verb:  (transitive) To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
noun:  A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.

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