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rate-book
[f. rate n.1]
1. A book of rates or prices.
1654R. Whitlock Zootomia 240 When God maketh up his Jewells, it is thence Rate Books will be made. 1690Dryden Don Sebastian Prol. 43 In no rate-book it was ever found That Pegasus was valued at five pound. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 329/1 Rate-book, a priced vocabulary of government stores [etc.].
2. A book containing the valuations of properties for the purposes of local taxation.
1845Disraeli Sybil (Rtldg.) 300 They..burned rate-books in the market place. 1856Farmer's Mag. Jan. 39 A list of the occupiers to whom they had delivered schedules..to be taken from the local rate-books. |