单词 | crimping house |
释义 | > as lemmascrimping house crimping house n. a lodging house kept by a crimp (crimp n.2 3). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > [noun] > house used for recruiting lock-up house1746 crimping house1795 crimp house1797 1795 Hull Advertiser 18 July 2/3 A false impression..of persons being kidnapped in a Crimping-house. 1858 A. Polson Law & Lawyers 148 A mob assembled in Holborn, threatening to pull down a Crimping-house. 2007 V. Gatrell City of Laughter Epil. 590 In 1795 in a crimping house ‘of the very worst sort’..a man delirious from smallpox escaped on the roof. < as lemmas |
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