stockbooks

Noun

stockbook (plural stockbooks)

1. A storage book used by stamp collectors for storage of postage stamps placed in pockets, on pages, for easy viewing.
2. A book recording data about a farm's stock (livestock): the number or name of each animal, who the sire and dam were, who the offspring were, and so on.
   • Pigs, cattle and other chalkland livestock
     Historians have frequently neglected the other demesne animals that were an important part of chalkland farming. The stockbook of Winchester Cathedral Priory can again be used to provide a snapshot of all the livestock on a large estate in the chalklands...2011, John Hare, A Prospering Society: Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages (Studies in Regional and Local History), volume 10, University of Hertfordshire Press, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   herdbook, more there

3. A book recording data about a company's stock: the numbers and classes of shares, the names of stockholders, and so on.
   • FRESCHI, J. The defendant is charged with a violation of subdivision 4 of section 665 of the Penal Law in willfully refusing to allow one Edward S. Anderson, a stockholder of the Candler Realty Company, to inspect the stockbook of that corporation on August 31, 1915. The testimony shows that the...1917, “People v. Bowie”, in New York Supplement, volumes 166: August 6–November 19, 1917, West Publishing Co, page 905