Definition of "waste-book" [waste-book]

• A day-book. See bookkeeping. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "“Silence!” exclaimed her husband, who was writing down some figures in his waste-book."
• "My friend, in whose waste-book I found them, -- a beneficed clergyman in Worcestershire, who has been several years dead, -- obtained them from a college friend during the last century."
• "_ You identify it by means of the copy which you have made from your waste-book, which book you have left at Sunderland."