What is "paybook"

Usage examples of "paybook".

Sergey replied, flipping briefly through the paybook before pocketing it.

He shuffled forward in his turn and produced his identifying paybook, feeling the small warm stillness under his pocket as he did so.

A grey-faced naval officer, flanked by a keen-eyed Master of Arms, inspected his paybook briefly, glanced up at his face, then down to the front of his battle dress.

If you were a Tucker in this regiment, you were always a Tommy, no matter what your paybook said.

While he had been here in this same hospital with the delirious Sub-Lieutenant Napier, some busybody had noticed in his paybook that one of his inoculations was out of date.

All this information, together with much else, such as his date and place of birth, height, color of hair, color of eyes, and other characteristics, was to be found conveniently enough in the blue service paybook which he had put in the top left-hand pocket of his tunic.

You were not supposed to carry your paybook with you when you were on operations, but Oxley forgot.

He had grown and been conscripted and sailed for Malaya, and then died violently at nineteen, with his paybook in his pocket.

When he knew he was on the list for the training camp at Buksing, Brigg lay on his bed, thought of Oxley and imagined what the paybook of Private Brigg would look like gummed up with blood.

Rheinholdt pulled his paybook from his back pocket and balanced it on his knees.

He was moved from one PW camp to the next and finally found peace in an English camp for antifascist prisoners, for along with the usual guardhouse peccadilloes the reason for his demotion was noted in his paybook.