| 单词 | toll-book keeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoll-book keeper A book containing a register of beasts or goods to be sold at a market or fair, and the tolls payable for them; in the toll-book, in the market, for sale (in quot. 1607 figurative); also, a tax-collector's register or assessment-book. Also in combination toll-book keeper. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > book book of rates1565 toll-book1607 1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. ii. sig. D4 Some that were Maides..are now perhaps ith Toale-booke. 1629 Vse of Law 80 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light And the seller must bring one to avouch his sale knowne to the Tolle-book-keeper. 1629 Vse of Law 74 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light If hee bee a horse hee must bee ridden two houres in the Market or Faire, betweene Ten and fiue a clocke, and Tolled for in the Tolle-Booke. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 192 Nor is it probable he was a Mendicant, who was rated in the Publicans Tole-Book, and paid Tribute unto Cæsar. 1679 London Gaz. No. 1446/4 Whoever gives notice of the said Horse to John Warren aforesaid, or to John Davenport, Keeper of the Toll-Book in West Smithfield, shall have 20s. Reward. < as lemmas |
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