Usually means: Supports, holds books between ends.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. bookend: Merriam-Webster
  2. bookend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bookend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bookend: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bookend, bookend: Wordnik
  6. bookend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bookend: Wiktionary
  8. bookend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bookend (book end): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bookend: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bookend: Dictionary.com
  12. bookend: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Bookend (disambiguation), Bookend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. bookend: Rhymezone
  15. bookend: FreeDictionary.org
  16. bookend: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. bookend: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. bookend: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bookend: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bookend)

noun:  A heavy object or moveable support placed at one or both ends of a row of books for the purpose of keeping them upright.
noun:  (figurative) Something that comes before, after, or at both sides of something else.
verb:  (transitive) To come before and after, or at both sides of.

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