单词 | rasp house |
释义 | rasp housen. Now historical. Originally and chiefly in the Low Countries: a house of correction in which (chiefly male) prisoners were employed in hard labour, esp. in rasping wood. Cf. spin-house n. a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > reformatory prison workhouse?c1475 house of correction1575 bridewell1583 work-jail1619 correction-housec1625 rasp house1651 bettering house1735 bettering mansion1740 penitentiary house1779 penitentiary1807 work farm1835 farm1857 pen1881 prison-industrial complex1965 1651 Mercurius Politicus No. 46 749 From the Hague... What will become of the youths I know not; They say they are condemned to the Rasp-house. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 45 We were carried to see the Rasp-house, where the lusty Knaves are compelld to labour, and it is a very hard labour, the rasping of Brasill, & Log-wood for the Diers. a1667 P. Mundy Trav. (1925) IV. xxxii. 73 Their are allsoe 2 houses off Correction, viz., the raspe house and the Spynnehouse; the Former For Men, where they are putt to hard labour, cheiffly to raspe Brasill etts, diers wood. 1684 tr. A. O. Exquemelin Bucaniers Amer. i. v. 61 Commonly these had rather be Gally-slaves in the Streights, or saw Brasilwood, in the Rasp-houses of Holland, then serve such barbarous masters. 1749 T. Nugent Grand Tour I. 74 The Rasp-house or house of correction, is..very well worth a traveller's notice. 1777 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales 121 Men are put to labour in the Rasp-houses, and women do proper work in the Spin-Houses. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. ix. 323 Dame Suddlechop, who ended her career in the Rasp-haus, (viz. Bridewell), of Amsterdam. 1865 Daily Tel. 28 Dec. 5/5 The judge..sent this rascal to the whipping-post, and that rogue to the rasp-house. 1952 L. W. Fox Eng. Prison & Borstal Syst. ii. 25 But in Europe too committal to the Rasp House became a purely penal measure, and during the eighteenth century developed all the characteristics not only of deterrence but of defamation. 1981 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 87 733 Borrowing from the examples set by the Ghent Maison de Force, the Amsterdam Rasp House, and the prison of San Michele, the reformers urged the imposition of an austere and monastic regime which would eliminate sloth, vice, disease, and waste. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1651 |
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