shopbook

noun

shopbook

noun

Etymology From shop + book.

1

Dated A book in which a tradesman keeps the accounts.

one unpractised in figures to cast up a shopbook1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:

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