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Word entry · 7 letters

bookend

Best crossword clue

"Upright shelf support"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈbʊkɛnd/Part of speech nounSorted bdeknooStarts with BEnds with D2 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a support placed at the end of a row of books to keep them upright (on a shelf or table)

Word origin

From book + end.

Used in a sentence

  • “The cabinet minister's appearance served as something of a bookend to her grilling by the Home Affairs select committee in April this year[…]”
  • “In both Episode 1 and Episode 9, which serve as bookends, Burns found fascinating footage of a 1938 event at which President Franklin Roosevelt spoke to living veterans who wore the Blue and the Gray; […]”
  • “[…] radio techniques, including the use of sound montage and the placement of musical "bookends" at the beginning and end of radio programs […]”

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01“Upright shelf support”7 letters
02“Shelf stopper”7 letters

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