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/bˈʊkmeɪkər/ Listen

Bookmaker

noun

A maker of books; someone who edits or publishes or binds books.

A gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races). Synonym: bookie.

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"Bookmaker" Quotes from Famous Books

... grand stand, and, glancing up, I saw "Mrs. Waller, twelve to one," chalked on a bookmaker's board. Then it dawned upon me that "Mrs. Waller" was a horse, and, thinking further upon the matter, I evolved the idea that my friend's advice, expressed in more becoming language, was "Back 'Mrs. Waller' for as much as you ...

— Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green • Jerome K. Jerome

... have already seen in the chapter on the West Saxon laws, that a bookmaker of the Saxon period appended the laws of Ine to the laws of Alfred, as if he found it natural to treat the old material as an appendix to the new.—But there is also something on the other side. In the after part of the Exeter book there are three batches of riddles, and the ...

— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle

Words linked to "Bookmaker" : bookie, gambler, shaper, maker