In full King's Bench Prison. Chiefly with the. A prison in Southwark, London, for debtors and criminals jailed by the supreme courts at…

(The name of) a prison in Southwark, London (originally the prison of the Court of the Marshalsea), under the control of the knight marshal, and in…

Name of a prison in Cornhill, London. Obsolete.

A little castle; the name of an ancient prison in Paris.

The name of a noted prison in Southwark; later used elsewhere (esp. in Devon and Cornwall) for a small and dismal prison or prison-cell, a lock-up…

a run of water, flowing into the Thames between Ludgate Hill and Fleet Street, now a covered sewer; called also Fleet ditch; hence, the prison…

The name of the prison in the old North Gate of the city of Oxford, pulled down in 1771.

With the. Usually with capital initial. (The name of) a fortress built in Paris in the 14th cent., known formally as la Bastille Saint-Antoine…

(formerly) a prison in the Poultry in London (see sense 2a and Compter, n.).

Chiefly with the. (A nickname for) Newgate prison; also used more generally with reference to other prisons. Cf. rub, v.3

British slang. the Moor: Dartmoor Prison (situated on Dartmoor, in Devon: see Dartmoor, n.).

the Ville, Pentonville Prison in London.

collective. the Scrubs: elliptical for Wormwood Scrubs Prison in Greater London. Also (nonstandard) Scrubbs.

one of the H-shaped buildings in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, the focus of a protest campaign by prisoners claiming ‘political’ (rather than…

Robben Island prison, Table Bay (Cape Town), where Mandela was held from 1964 to 1982, in reference to the political and historical debates entered…