单词 | bail-dock |
释义 | bail-dockbale-dockn. Obsolete. At the Old Bailey, London, (formerly) ‘a small room taken from one of the corners of the court, and left open at the top; in which, during the trials, are put some of the malefactors.’ Scots Mag. 1753 XV. 42/1. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > [noun] > enclosure for prisoner(s) > in specific court bail-dock1624 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iii. 159 The sessions is dissolved, the bench and bale-docke cleered. 1662 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1767) 148 Away I was taken and thrust into the Bail-dock to my other Friends who had been called before me. 1671 W. Penn Truth Rescued 8 I was commanded to the Bale-Dock for Turbulency and Impertinency. 1716 London Gaz. No. 5399/3 James Goodman..made his Escape..by leaping over the Spikes of the Bail-Dock and the Rails at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily. 1823 C. Lamb Quakers' Meeting in Elia 106 I remembered Penn before his accusers, and Fox in the bail-dock. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1624 |
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