Binding
King James Dictionary [1]
Bi'Nding, ppr. Fastening with a band confining restraining covering or wrapping obliging by a promise or other moral tie making costive contracting making hard or stiff.
Bi'Nding, a. That obliges obligatory as the binding force of a moral duty or of a command.
Bi'Nding, n. The act of fastening with a band or obliging a bandage the cover of a book, with the sewing and accompanying work any thing that binds something that secures the edge of cloth.
1. In the art of defense, a method of securing or crossing the adversary's sword with a pressure, accompanied with a spring of the wrist.
Binding-joists, in architecture, are the joists of a floor into which the trimmers of staircases, or well holes of the stairs and chimney ways, are framed.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, binds.
(2): (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bind
(3): (a.) That binds; obligatory.
(4): (n.) 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.
(5): (pl.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.
