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}.]
The great virtue of the Domesday Book, for example, was that its availability to the public enabled the accuracy of its contents to be checked.