noun
- a person or machine that fastens pages or sheets together with staples or thread to form a booklet or pamphlet
Usage: often used in printing and publishing contexts
Examples
- The print shop uses an industrial hefter to bind hundreds of pamphlets each day.
- She loaded paper into the hefter before starting the production run.
- A manual hefter is useful for small office tasks.
- The hefter jammed after processing too many sheets at once.