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单词 town book
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town bookn.

Brit. /ˈtaʊn bʊk/, U.S. /ˈtaʊn ˌbʊk/
Forms:

α. See town n. and book n.

β. Scottish pre-1700 townes buik, pre-1700 townis buk, pre-1700 tunis buk.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: town n., book n.
Etymology: In α. forms < town n. + book n. In β. forms < the genitive of town n. + book n.Compare Old English tūnes bōc title deed of an estate (compare book n. 1d).
Now historical.
A book in which the records of a town are kept.
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society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > other types of registers
Domesday Book1178
register1426
white bookc1432
town booka1547
christening book1558
muster1565
minute-book1566
Domes-booke1610
Newgate Calendar1686
time book1786
press book1808
provision book1840
visitors' book1846
guestbook1849
poison book1870
poison register1894
war diary1917
sign-in1966
a1547 in J. R. Boyle Early Hist. Town & Port of Hedon (1895) App. p. lxxii All suche retalles [read rentalles], presidences, or towne bookes as they had in theire kepinge.
1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 506 The townis bukis, court bukis, and scrollis.
1641 in Rec. Colony Rhode Island (1856) I. 114 Ordered, that each Towne shall provide a Towne Book, wherein they shall Record the Evidences of the Lands by them impropriated.
1692 Acts & Laws Massachussets-Bay 30 The Select-Men..shall cause an Entry to be made in the Town-Book.
1765 Universal Mag. 37 377/1 That this vote be recorded in the town book.
1775 Gen. Evening Post 24 Jan. The town books were produced, in which it appeared that nine had always been the complement.
1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 41 The Old Town Books of the Suabian and Franconian cities.
1839 B. F. Thompson Hist. Long Island 187 About sixty cases tried before the courts are found recorded in the town books, mostly for small debts and actions of slander.
1932 J. Ernst Roger Williams iii. ix. 415 He was chosen deputy to the Assembly, and the deeds and other papers committed to his care were recorded in the town book.
1995 A. D. Brown Pop. Piety in Late Medieval Eng. vii. 176 The scribe of the town book of Poole made a careful note that one Master Stroude owed £8 towards the making of the new rood loft in the church.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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