Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A time-table.

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  • noun Alternative form of time bill.

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Examples

  • So at last the constable, agreeing to forfeit his share of the fine, and the magistrate to take a time-bill on the contractor for the next section of the railway for the remaining twenty-five dollars, they let the man go, neither of them, I am sure, seeing him depart with regret.

    A Trip to Manitoba Mary FitzGibbon 1883

  • Could any of your correspondents favour us with the time-bill of that coach, detailing the length of the several stages, and the time of performance?

    Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

  • ` look out Jim, 'an' I draws out my pencil an 'bends my legs -- you must always bend your legs a little, ma'am, w'en you writes on a locomotive, it makes springs of 'em, so to speak -- an' I writes on the back of a blank time-bill, ` Molly, my dear, no more shilly-shallyin 'with _me_.

    The Iron Horse 1859

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