| 单词 | knobstick wedding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasknobstick wedding knobstick wedding n. now historical a wedding forced on a couple by parish officials when the woman is pregnant (typically to limit the number of claims on the poor rate for children born out of wedlock); cf. shotgun wedding n. at shotgun n. Compounds 2. [So called with reference to the presiding official's wand of office.] ΚΠ 1826 Bristol Mercury 20 March This was a forced marriage, or, as it is vulgarly called, ‘a knob-stick wedding’. 2012 Law & Hist. Rev. 30 415 In the morning Bradley was escorted into Nottingham in an attempt to get a licence (this was to be another knobstick wedding). < as lemmas |
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