单词 | mill-doll |
释义 | † mill-dolln. slang. Obsolete. A prison, spec. the Bridewell in the City of London. Cf. mill v.1 13. ΚΠ 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. i. xi. 86 Though I am sent hither to Mill Doll..I have Money enough to buy it off as well as the Lady herself. 1781 J. Messink Bridewell-keeper's Song in Airs in Choice of Harlequin 6 I'm Jigger Dubber here, and you're welcome to Mill Doll. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 189 Mill-doll, an obsolete name for Bridewell house of correction in Bridge-Street, Blackfriars. 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang 119 Mill-doll, a prison, that part of which is appropriated to working, hemp-beating, treading the wheel, etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2021). mill-dollv. Whaling. Now historical. intransitive. To force a passage through ice by means of a ram. ΚΠ 1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 310 (note) Mill-dolling, consists in breaking a passage through thin ice..by a sort of ram, let fall from the bowsprit. 1895 W. Barron Old Whaling Days 140 We tried to break our way into a lane of water by milldolling, that is having a boat hung in a tackle from the bowsprit, level with the water, and breaking the young bay ice ahead of the ship. 1986 B. Lopez Arctic Dreams vi. 215 They had to take the ship in tow behind their whaleboats and row through the ice... Or ‘mill-doll’, by dropping a boat with three or four men from the bowsprit, to fracture ice in advance of the prow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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