| 单词 | lock-up house |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslock-up house lock-up house n. (a) a place where people are kept in temporary custody after arrest; spec. one in which debtors are held before transfer to a debtors' prison (now historical); †(b) colloquial a lodging house in which men are confined and coerced into enlisting into the army or navy (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > enlistment or recruitment > [noun] > house used for recruiting lock-up house1746 crimping house1795 crimp house1797 1746Lock up house [see sense 1]. 1768 Ann. Reg. 1767 Chron. 60/2 The office keeper..found it to be a lock-up house for recruits. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Lock up house, a spunging house..; also houses kept by agents, or crimps, who inlist, or rather trepan men to serve the East India, or African Company as soldiers. 1804 European Mag. 45 332 (note) Coleman-street..had in it..a Magistrate..and a lock-up house. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iii. 158 He was in hiding, or worse than in hiding, in the lock-up house. 1912 Financial Times 6 Jan. 10/4 The last-mentioned sum comprises the following items:..lunatic asylums, £280,000; police-stations and lock-up houses, £52,000; [etc.]. 2003 M. C. Finn Char. of Credit iii. 117 Superior-court insolvents who failed to obtain bail or to effect a settlement with their creditors in a lock-up house proceeded to the debtors' prison itself. < as lemmas |
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