a waste-book
1waste book — noun A day book or journal, or a rougher record preliminary to it • • • Main Entry: ↑waste …
2waste-book — scrap book, book for writing rough sketches or drafts …
3waste-book — A book used by merchants, to receive rough entries or memoranda of all transactions in the order of their occurrence, previous to their being posted in the journal. Otherwise called a blotter …
4waste-book — A book of original entry of accounts in which all transactions are entered; a blotter …
5waste-book — …
6book of account — Otherwise known as a shop book a book of original entry of transactions with customers in a store or shop, which is admissible in evidence in an action by the storekeeper or shopkeeper to recover on the account of a, customer, where properly… …
7Book burning — (a category of biblioclasm, or book destruction) is the practice of destroying, often ceremoniously, one or more copies of a book or other written material. In modern times, other forms of media, such as phonograph records, video tapes, and CDs… …
8Book — A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf… …
9waste leaf — noun 1. : either of two protective extra blank leaves tipped on as the first and last leaves of a book and torn off when endpapers are affixed called also smut sheet 2. : endpaper …
10The Waste Land — For other uses, see Wasteland. The Waste Land[A] is a 434 line[B] modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called one of the most important poems of the 20th century. [1] Despite the poem s obscurity[2] its shifts between… …
