waybill
Americannoun
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a list of goods sent by a common carrier, as a railroad, with shipping directions.
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Origin of waybill
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A company rule bars towing waybill locomotives without such couplers, the report said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
The airline clerk, making out a waybill: "Contents?"
From Time Magazine Archive
For most Frenchmen, however, the most important single item in Suzanne's waybill was tough, pompadoured Marcel Cerdan, the idolized middleweight boxing champ who last June dropped his title to Jake LaMotta in Detroit.
From Time Magazine Archive
A clerk passes the waybill over the hatch-coaming.
From With The Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared) by Leyendecker, Frank X.
And—if you'll stand the waybill, Mr. Sterzer—we'll have the best Pinkerton in Boston down here in three hours by special train.
From The Depot Master by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
Taxes on passenger tickets and cargo waybills would also increase.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’ve heard of a few tricks being played with waybills before to-day, while the load’s on the road.”
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Mitford, Bertram
Old waybills; the romance of the express companies. © 30Mar34; A71089.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
The watermen went to and fro with sacks about their shoulders, and the guards, bustling from the office with their waybills and the late parcels, were short of temper and curt of tongue.
From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.
Between the rusty tracks grass and weeds grew and flourished, and the few waybills and excursion placards which still showed here and there looked unutterably forlorn.
From Great Britain at War by Farnol, Jeffery
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