Ticket

n. [For sticket, from O. Fr. esticquette, N. Fr. étiquette, a label, ticket, Prov. Fr. estiquete, a small pointed piece of wood, from L. Ger. stikke, a tack, pin, peg, stikken, H. Ger. stecken, to stick, to fix.] A small piece of paper serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something;—used for various purposes; as, (a.) A little note or notice. [Obs.]

He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors. Fuller.

(b.) A tradesman's bill. [Obs.]

☞ Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came on tick.

Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets On ticket for his mistress. Cotgrave.

(c.) A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or to enter and be carried in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket. (d.) A label to show the character or price of goods in a parcel. (e.) A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other mode of distributing money, goods, and the like.

Ticket of leave, a license or permit given to a convict or prisoner of the crown to be at large, and to labor for himself. [Eng.] Simmonds.