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noun

Bookmaker n.

One who writes and publishes books; especially, one who gathers his materials from other books; a compiler.

(Horse Racing) A betting man who "makes a book." See To make a book, under Book, n.

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Etymology of 'Bookmaker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bookmaker" Quotes from Famous Books

... time I called on him to conclude the transaction we were interrupted by a person, something like a cross between a bookmaker and a private secretary, who, entering through a door which was not the anteroom door, walked up and stooped to whisper into ...

— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

... in the light of his brilliant left hand. Once, at Derry—he attended a cock-fight, and beguiled an interval by emptying the pockets of a lucky bookmaker. An expert, who watched the exploit in admiration, could not withhold a compliment. 'You are the Switcher,' he exclaimed; 'some take all, but you leave nothing.' And it is as the Switcher that Haggart keeps his ...

— A Book of Scoundrels • Charles Whibley

... into a rear room, where he found three men seated at a felt-covered card-table. They were well dressed, quiet persons—one a bookmaker whom the racing laws had reduced from affluence to comparative penury; another, a tall, pallid youth with bulging eyes. The third occupant of the room was an ex- lightweight champion of the ring, Young Sullivan, by name. His trim waist and powerful ...

— The Auction Block • Rex Beach

... have trained myself not to be a creature of impulse, at least not in matters of importance. Without that patient and painful schooling, I shouldn't have got where I now am; probably I'd still be blacking boots, or sheet-writing for some bookmaker, or clerking it for some broker. Before I got to my rooms, the night air and my habit of the "sober second thought" had cooled ...

— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips

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