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booking, vbl. n.|ˈbʊkɪŋ|
[f. book v. + -ing1.]
†1. The action of making into a book. Obs.
1643Herle Answ. Ferne 1 What hath bin all this while a booking.
2. The action of entering in a book, esp. in order to engage a seat or place; also the issuing of tickets, entitling to the same.
1884Pall Mall G. 5 Aug. 7/2 The number of bookings was much larger than..last year. 1884Daily News 9 Apr. 5/3 The old second-class fares were retained..for first-class bookings.
3. Sc. Law. A tenure peculiar to the burgh of Paisley, whereby the proprietors held their lands under the magistrates, the conveyance being entered or ‘booked’ in the Burgh Register. (Abolished by ‘The Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1874’).
1868Act 31–2 Vict. ci. §152 Lands in the burgh of Paisley, held by the peculiar tenure of booking.
4. Comb. booking-clerk, the clerk or official who books passengers or goods for a conveyance, or who sells tickets at a booking-office; booking-office, an office where places may be booked for a coach or other conveyance, or where goods may be booked for transit; also the place where tickets are sold at a railway or steam-boat station; the place where tickets are sold for a theatre or other place of entertainment (1889 Cent. Dict.).
1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 79/2 Sally forth to the booking-office to secure your place. Ibid. 80/1 You wonder what on earth the booking-office clerks can have been before they were booking-office clerks. 1881R. Grant White Eng. Within & W. iii. 60 At the ‘booking-office’ no booking is done..But as there were booking offices for the stagecoaches which used to run between all the towns..of England, the term had become fixed in the minds, and upon the lips of this nation of travellers. 1948Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. 453 Punch's theatre article used to be headed ‘Our Booking Office’. Today everybody speaks and writes of the box-office of a theatre. Only a railway ticket-office is a booking-office. 1952Granville Dict. Theatr. Terms 30 Booking office, a theatre-booking agency in the city. Patrons are able to book seats through the agency, which communicates with the theatre concerned.
Add:[2.] b. Assoc. Football. An official caution given to a player for a serious infringement of the rules: see sense *2 e of the vb.
1969Daily Mirror 30 Dec. 18/1 The last time he met Best..was at Old Trafford earlier this season. It brought Mills a booking for fouling Best. 1976Daily Record (Glasgow) 23 Nov. 26/5 Edwards trained yesterday despite being carried off at Ibrox on Saturday after a crunching tackle from Jim Steele which brought the Rangers player a booking. 1988Times 2 Jan. 30/8 There was an element of frustration in the visitors' display which resulted in bookings for Reid and Sharp. |