ticket

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TICK'ET, noun 1. A piece of paper or a card, which gives the holder a right of admission to some place; as a ticket for the play-house or for other exhibition. 2. A piece of paper or writing, acknowledging some debt, or a certificate that something is due to the holder. 3. A piece of paper bearing some number in a lottery, which entitles the owner to receive such prize as may be drawn against that number. When it draws no prize, it is said to draw a blank, and the holder has nothing to receive. TICK'ET, verb transitive To distinguish by a ticket
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