Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A time-table.
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- noun Alternative form of
time bill .
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Examples
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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
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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?
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` 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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