单词 | workhouse stable |
释义 | > as lemmasworkhouse stable (a) In sense 1, as workhouse forge, workhouse stable, etc. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1569 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 218 In the warkhouse stable. 1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. R This grand-traitor to mans happinesse, as in a worke-house forge, or common shoppe, dooth stampe and coine a multitude of euils. a1749 W. Ged Biogr. Mem. (1781) i. 19 He and his brother impudently broke open my work-house-door, and finding the material part of my tools gone, applied to trades-men in the place. 1931 A. P. Wadsworth in A. P. Wadsworth & J. de L. Mann Cotton Trade & Industr. Lancs. v. 108 In the workhouse manufactures of the late seventeenth century,..the idea of labour discipline within the shop had been firmly grasped. < as lemmas |
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