Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book in which the tallies or runs in base-ball, cricket, and other games are kept.
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Examples
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The recording of an historical event was important there - fore; in a sense it was necessary in order to catch and clinch the event — like the case of a run in any game, which is unachieved unless it gets into the score-book.
HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968
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In the score-book of Fate is this entry in letters of gold:
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 Various
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Every man after shooting brought his score-book to him, and was told how to improve his work.
At Plattsburg Allen French 1908
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Therefore, if you shot on a warm day and made 5's, and recorded temperature and other conditions in your score-book, you would know on looking at your score sheets that you should raise your elevation, if you were firing on a cold day.
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The score-books issued by the Ordnance Department contain elevation charts and all you have to do is to consult the chart of your score-book in order to get the amount of elevation necessary at any particular range in order to raise or lower your shots any desired distance.
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The middle of the fourth saw a distinctly unhappy crowd at Chase Field: the line in the score-book, "J Werth safe at home on error by center fielder C Young, J Werth scored," will tend to do that to the viewer, even though on the replay, it was clearly a 100% BS call - Chris Young had caught the ball, and drooped it afterward, while transferring it to his throwing-hand.
AZ Snakepit Jim McLennan 2010
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