1757 London Chron. 24 Sept. 303/3 It would not be amiss, if your Excellency would order your Clerk to send a Way-Bill with the Reports you send to me.

1772 S. Neville Diary 5 May (1950) viii. 157 One of the passengers was a French lady, named in the way-bill Mrs. Mandeville.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1784 II. 495 The Oxford post-coach took us up in the morning at Bolt-Court... I found from the way-bill, that Dr. Johnson had made our names be put down.

1821 Massachusetts Spy 23 May Packages of the larger kind, belonging to any passenger, were always entered on the way-bill.

1849 T. De Quincey Eng. Mail-coach in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 489/2 Ucalegon, as it happened, was not in the way-bill.

1887 A. C. Gunter Mr. Barnes xx. 145 The old and dilapidated little dirty trunk covered with numerous way-bills.

1934 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 28 87 The air waybill shall be made out by the consignor in three original parts and be handed over with the goods.

1950 L. Shapiro Soviet Treaty Series I. 212 Letters..sent in transit, shall be despatched in accordance with the directions on the waybills.

1986 J. McPhee Rising from Plains 12 On the waybill, the passengers were given exactly the same status as the oysters and the grapes.

1991 Daily Tel. 21 Mar. 8/3 The consignee named in a ‘sea waybill’ and the holder of a ship's delivery order can assert a right of action against the ship owner.

1998 S. A. Schultz & M. J. Schultz Tarantula Keeper's Guide vi. 191 The waybills that accompany the shipment should be marked with the same information as the labels.

1823 T. Moore Rhymes on Road 10 I've got into the easy mode, You see, of rhyming on the road—Making a way-bill of my pages, Counting my stanzas by my stages.

1851 W. Kelly Excursion to Calif. I. x. 172 According to our way-bill, and comparing it with our computed travel, we could not be far off the next crossing of the Platte.

1866 Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 7/4 All of which places..are set down for visit in my way-bill.

1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xxxv. 242 He had been traveling on what is known in that country as a ‘way-bill’, or a description of a route received from another.

1893 Times 20 Sept. 3/6 This system, which became known as the ‘waybill’ system, was worked in this way. When a destitute wayfarer left a casual ward in the morning, he could, on application, obtain a waybill or passport, on which were recorded..the day and hour at which the bearer left it, and the route on which he was travelling, [etc.].

1894 Charity Organ. Rev. Jan. 21 Mr. Wright speaks highly of the success of the ‘waybill’ system, which he describes as ‘an automatic filter’ to separate the honest labourer from the professional vagrant.

1897 Church Times 20 Aug. 187/1 Any poor traveller..will be..fed, lodged, and passed on, the following morning, with a stamped way-bill, to the next lodging-house on the route.

1843 Amer. Traveller (Boston) 25 July 1/8 These passengers being way-billed, having no tickets, except for the first stage,..cannot convert their tickets into way tickets.

1862 Maine Rep. 47 577 I way-billed these goods to Boston.

1863 Golden Era (San Francisco) 4 Jan. 5 Satisfied that I was properly waybilled and receipted for, he took no further notice of me.

1890 Railways Amer. 412 He..must count, seal, superscribe, and way-bill money packages and handle oyster-kegs..at a moment's notice.

1944 Chicago Daily News 24 June 2 She begins her day here, way-billing freight.

1951 Papers New Haven Colony Hist. Soc. 10 165 Prior to this time the passengers were waybilled just as was freight.

1998 Traffic World (Pa., USA) (Nexis) 14 Dec. (Rail section) 35 After the closing date, all traffic will be waybilled by either NS or CSX.