Definition of "text-book" [text•-book]

• A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes. (noun)
• A volume, as of some classical author, on which a teacher lectures or comments; hence, any manual of instruction; a schoolbook. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "This fund became a sort of text-book that was passed on, a part of the curriculum, as it were, of the school of Revolution. 1"
• "` I'll wager they've made a text-book out of his "Benevolent Feudalism."'"
• "Durant, the District native and Montrose Christian alum, kept earning his trust as he used that text-book, confection-sweet release to knock down shots."