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Definition of Bookend
1. Noun. A support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table).
Definition of Bookend
1. 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. ¹
2. Verb. To come before and after, or at both sides of ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bookend
1. a support for a row of books [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookend
Literary usage of Bookend
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hud Rebuilding and Loan Guaranty Program: Hearing Before the Committee on edited by Lauch Faircloth (1997)
"Mr Chairman, the story of church burnings in America over the past few years is
a story with two bookends, one a bookend of discrimination and anger, ..."
2. The Beginning Reading Instruction Study by Marcy Stein (1994)
"... 31.67 *8.75 *8.75 23.67 *8.75 *8.75 Level 3 Classroom Kit (in press) Trophy
Book 1 SB Trophy Book 2 SB Blackline Master bookend Comprehension 7.75 7.75 ..."
3. The Revenge of the Melians: Asymmetric Threats & the Next QDR by Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr. (2001)
"First, WMD are "bookend" options. They are more likely to be useful either as
coercing measures or as actual weapons at the very beginning or the endgame of ..."
4. Narrative of a Journey Round the World: Comprising a Winter-passage Across by Friedrich Gerstäcker (1853)
"He first read a verse from a Tahitian prayer-bookend began the tune himself.
The first line he had to sing alone, ii the second several others joined with ..."
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