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bookend definition

book·end (-end′)

noun

a support, often ornamental and usually one of a pair, put at the end of a row of books to keep them upright

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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