shopbook
English
Noun
shopbook (plural shopbooks)
- (dated) A book in which a tradesman keeps the accounts.
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
- one unpractised in figures to cast up a shopbook
References
- “shopbook”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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