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ˈtable-book
1. A book composed of tablets for memoranda; a pocket note-book or memorandum-book. Obs. or rare.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 67 Registers..busie with their Table-books..to gather phrases. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 136. 1616 Trav. Eng. Pilg. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 332 Writing my notes out of my table-book. 1667Pepys Diary 10 May, Found in the dead man's pocket..a table-book, wherein were entered the names of several places where he was to go. 1711–12Swift Jrnl. to Stella 22 Jan., He thanked me for telling him, and immediately put his name in his table-book. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 276 He was observed to busy himself by writing in his table book. 1852Thackeray Esmond II. v. 76 We were off Finisterre on the 31st of July, so Esmond's table-book informs him. 1937Blunden Elegy 11 Might Machiavel Now from his table-book communicate Precept or paradox that could do well In the nerve centres of a modern state?
2. A book of arithmetical or other tables; a Ready Reckoner or the like.
1827G. Darley Sylvia 28 He cannot count his fingers Without a table-book.
3. An ornamental book for a drawing-room table.
1845(title) George Cruikshank's Table-Book. 188.Lit. World (Cent. Dict.), The Christmas table-book has well nigh disappeared, and well-illustrated editions of famous works are becoming more and more popular.
Hence † ˈtable-book-ˌwise adv. Obs., in the manner of a table-book (sense 1).
1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 27 Some do use to have a small leger booke fairely bound up table-book-wise. |