† ˈpoor-book Obs.
Also 7 poor's-book.
A book containing a list of the poor in receipt of parish relief.
| 1681 [see poll-book s.v. poll n.1 10]. 1682 Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 165 Such poor people who goe to conventicles, and not to their parish churches, shall be putt out of the poors book, and have no parish collections. 1819 Sporting Mag. IV. 274 It [a parish meeting] was called for the inspection of our poor-book. |