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ˈway-bill
1. A list of passengers booked for seats in a stagecoach or other public vehicle for places on the road. Also a detailed statement of goods entrusted to a public carrier for delivery at stated destinations.
1791Boswell Johnson 3 June 1784, The Oxford post⁓coach took us up in the morning at Bolt-Court... I found from the way-bill, that Dr. Johnson had made our names be put down. 1821Massachusetts Spy 23 May (Thornton), Packages of the larger kind, belonging to any passenger, were always entered on the way-bill. 1824Barnewall & Cresswell Rep. K.B. II. 718 He did not see any Norwich way-bill [in the waggon]. 1849De Quincey Eng. Mail Coach Wks. 1862 IV. 297 Ucalegon, as it happened, was not in the way-bill and therefore could not have been booked. 1864T. S. Williams & Simmonds Engl. Commerc. Corresp. 91 You will also be kind enough to repay him the carriage according to the bills of lading or the waybills he will show you. 1897B. Stoker Dracula xvii. (1912) 244 The official..sending also..the way-bill and all the papers connected with the delivery of the boxes at Carfax.
2. A list of places to be visited on a journey.
1851W. Kelly Excursion to California I. x. 172 According to our way-bill, and comparing it with our computed travel, we could not be far off the next crossing of the Platte. 1866Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 7/4 All of which places..are set down for visit in my way-bill. 1879Tourgee Fool's Errand xxxv. 242 He had been traveling on what is known in that country as a ‘way-bill’, or a description of a route received from another.
transf.1823Moore Rhymes on Road Introd. 89, I've got into the easy mode, You see, of rhyming on the road—Making a way-bill of my pages, Counting the stanzas by my stages.
3. U.S. A label attached to an article in transit to indicate its destination, mode of transport, etc.
1887Gunter Mr. Barnes xx. 145 The old and dilapidated little dirty trunk covered with numerous way-bills.
4. A kind of pass by producing which a man ‘on the road’ can obtain relief at certain stages of his journey. So way-bill system.
1893Times 20 Sept. 3/6 This system, which became known as the ‘waybill’ system, was worked in this way. When a destitute wayfarer left a casual ward in the morning, he could, on application, obtain a waybill or passport, on which were recorded..the day and hour at which the bearer left it, and the route on which he was travelling, [etc.]. 1897Church Times 20 Aug. 187/1 Any poor traveller..will be..fed, lodged, and passed on, the following morning, with a stamped way-bill, to the next lodging-house on the route.
Hence way-bill v. trans. U.S., to enter (goods) on a way-bill.
1877W. H. Burroughs Taxation 140 Freight being way-billed through. 1890Railways Amer. 412 He..must count, seal, superscribe, and way-bill money packages and handle oyster-kegs..at a moment's notice. |