time billn.
/ˈtʌɪm bɪl/, U.S. /ˈtaɪm ˌbɪl/ 1. A timetable for a railway or other means of transport, posted as a bill for public view. Cf. timetable n. 3a. Now historical.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > timetable or schedule
timesc1410
time bill1810
train indicator1849
time sheet1850
horary1851
timetable1856
schedule1863
horarium1921
sked1929
time frame1946
timeline1948
1810 Statutes United Kingdom xxxiii. 59 In case the Driver of any such Coach..shall not in all possible Cases travel at the Speed of such a Number of Miles an Hour as are fixed and expressed in and by the Time-bill carried with the same.
1847 East. Counties & E. Union Railways in Railw. Mag. Jan. 1910. 46 Time bills of a prior date are not correct.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Time-bill, a time-table of the arrivals and departures of trains, omnibuses, steamers, &c.
1898 Daily News 19 Oct. 3/2 She looked down the timebill for a place a long way off, and seeing Blackpool and the distance it was off took a ticket for there.
1924 Times 21 Nov. 5/7 Published in their train time bills and time-table book.
2006 Guardian (Nexis) 22 July (Review section) 12 Advertising the departure and arrival of trains, and before them, mail coaches, wasn't new: coach companies had ‘time bills’.
2. British. A record of the precise time a mail delivery reaches particular points on its journey, used by the Post Office to monitor punctuality. Now historical.
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1822 6th Rep. Sel. Comm. Roads London to Holyhead 14 in Parl. Papers VI. 513 Do you allow any particular time for changing horses ?—Not upon the face of the post office time bill.
1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 658 To ascertain the precise moment that the train clears certain stations, that he [sc. the guard] may..chronicle the same in his time-bill.
1905 Longman's Mag. Aug. 346 He asked the postmaster at his starting-point to enter the hour of leaving in his time-bill a good deal later than the actual hour, so that he might be able to take his time and rest by the way.
1973 J. Greenwood Posts Sussex 44 The Post Office time bill quoted in Stow's ‘Survey of London’ shows that the post left the Letter Office in London at 2.30 am on July 17 1719 and arrived at East Grinstead at 3.30 pm, having travelled via Epsom, Dorking and Reigate.
3. U.S. Finance. A bill payable at a specified future date or a certain length of time after presentation or sight. Cf. time draft n. at time n., int., and conj. Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > promissory notes or bills of exchange > [noun] > a promissory note or bill of exchange
exchange1485
bill1579
bill1613
hundi1619
assignment1622
cambio1645
note1653
order1673
bank bill1682
banknote1695
assignation1704
promissory note1710
note of hand1728
stiff1823
time bill1842
PO1861
marker1887
1842 Daily Atlas (Boston, Mass.) 9 Sept. Sight bills..are selling at 1½ per cent prem. No time bills.
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 90 This House deals extensively..in time bills on N. Orleans.
1922 D. R. Dewey & M. J. Shugrue Banking & Credit iii. 35 Discussion of documentary bills, sight bills, and time bills.
1992 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 52 587 Time bills were payable after a specified period.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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