Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Domesday"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Domesday \Domes"day`\, n.
A day of judgment. See {Doomsday}. [Obs.]
{Domesday Book}, the ancient record of the survey of most of
the lands of England, made by order of William the
Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large
folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures,
arable land, woodland, etc. [Written also {Doomsday
Book}.]
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