hemacite
Noun. A material made from sawdust and the blood of slaughtered animals, used in the late nineteenth century for doorknobs, buttons, etc.This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
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