stock book
AmericanEtymology
Origin of stock book
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
Example Sentences
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I went to the store and he had marked about twenty items on his stock book, which he said was a perpetual inventory.
From Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Whitehead, Harold
She turned the pages of a stock book idly.
From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell
Tayler,—as a literary novelty—such a selection has not been a stock book for the last century.
From Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 by Various
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