shopbook

English

Etymology

From shop +‎ book.

Noun

shopbook (plural shopbooks)

1. (dated) A book in which a tradesman keeps the accounts.
   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:

     one unpractised in figures to cast up a shopbook

References

• “shopbook”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• book shop, bookshop