waybill
a list of goods sent by a common carrier, as a railroad, with shipping directions.
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How to use waybill in a sentence
That cotch cam' in safe eneuch; and it puzzled me quite to see yer name bookit in the waybill, an' ye no come.
Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II | VariousAnd—if you'll stand the waybill, Mr. Sterzer—we'll have the best Pinkerton in Boston down here in three hours by special train.
The Depot Master | Joseph C. LincolnThere was the waybill, and there was the lady herself; put that and that together, and make what you could of it.
The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems | Frances Fuller VictorCoachman comes out with his waybill, and puffing a fat cigar which the sportsman has given him.
Tom Brown's Schooldays | Thomas HughesA paper resembling a waybill was made out by the agent of the line at the starting point.
Historic Highways of America (Vol. 10) | Archer Butler Hulbert
British Dictionary definitions for waybill
/ (ˈweɪˌbɪl) /
a document attached to goods in transit specifying their nature, point of origin, and destination as well as the route to be taken and the rate to be charged
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