pass-time

See also: passtime

English

Noun

pass-time (plural pass-times)

  1. Obsolete spelling of pastime
    • 1817, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, chapter 3, in Biographia Literaria‎, footnote, published 1889, page 24:
      For as to the devotees of the circulating libraries, I dare not compliment their pass-time, or rather kill-time, with the name of reading.

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