α. See town n. and book n.
β. Scottish pre-1700 townes buik, pre-1700 townis buk, pre-1700 tunis buk.
单词 | town book |
释义 | town bookn.α. See town n. and book n. β. Scottish pre-1700 townes buik, pre-1700 townis buk, pre-1700 tunis buk. Now historical. A book in which the records of a town are kept. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.a1547 |
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