| 单词 | hard labour |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard labour hard labour n. heavy manual work imposed as a punishment, esp. during a prison sentence. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > with hard labour > hard labour hard labour1651 servitude1659 hard1887 1651 All Proc. Sessions of Peace Westm. 20 Iune 9 The Keeper of the sayd house of Correction is heereby strictly required to set the sayd Thomas Kearby to hard labour, and to give him corporall punishment as occasion requireth. 1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals III. 158 They carried them before a neighbouring Justice of Peace who presently committed them to Bridewell to hard Labour. 1865 Act 28 & 29 Vict. c. 126 §19 Hard Labour for the Purposes of this Act shall be of Two Classes, consisting, 1st, of Work at the Tread Wheel, Shot Drill, Crank, Capstan, Stone-breaking, or..other like Description of hard bodily labour. 1926 Daily Chron. 13 May 2/6 Three men were each sentenced to three months hard labour for inciting a crowd of people to set fire to a railway motor lorry in the city. 2006 Frankston (Austral.) Standard (Nexis) 6 Mar. 8 He was given hard labour in a road party for using bad language. < as lemmas |
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