What does "binding" mean?

Binding: The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.

Additional senses

  1. 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.
  2. 3.pl. (Naut.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

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