Usually means: Support for holding books open.
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  1. bookrest: Merriam-Webster
  2. bookrest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bookrest: Wiktionary
  4. bookrest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. bookrest: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. bookrest: Dictionary.com
  7. bookrest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. bookrest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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noun:  A support used to maintain a book or sheet when reading.

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