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A thread waxed with cobbler’s wax and used for binding whips, fishing-rods, ropes, etc., for sewing boots and shoes, etc. It is waxed and used for a bond.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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