单词 | prison yard |
释义 | > as lemmasprison yard prison yard n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > yard prison yard?1640 yard1777 ring1898 compound1946 ?1640 J. Lilburne Coppy Let. 3 And my Friends..did goe up into Thomas Deanes room over against me, that so they might know how it fared with me, there being the breadth of the Prison yard betwixt us. 1776 Jrnls. Continental Congr. 1774–89 (Libr. of Congr.) (1906) IV. 121 Resolved, That the said J. Connolly be allowed..to walk in the prison yard or hall. 1851 J. J. Lancaster in Rep. Sel. Comm. Passengers' Act 142 in Parl. Papers XIX. 1 Those in Millbank [sc. a London military hospital] are drawn up in the prison-yard or wards. 1995 K. Toolis Rebel Hearts (1996) iii. 156 One day we were walking in the prison yard and this prisoner turns round to me and says: ‘Do you know them pistols point two fives?’ < as lemmas |
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