| 释义 |
Lob's pound Now dial.
Also (? erron.) 7 Cobs pound, 8 Hob's pound.
[See lob n.2 2.]
Prison; jail; the lock-up. Also fig., an entanglement, difficulty.
1597E. S. Discov. Knights of Post B, Knightes of the Poste, Lords of lobs pound, and heires apparant to the pillory. 1612Pasquil's Night-Cap (1877) 64 There is the Woodcocke fall'n into the gin, And in Lobs-pound intangled by a wile. 1639J. Clarke Paroemiologia 188 Hee's in Cobs pound. 1663Butler Hud. i. iii. 910 Crowdero, whom in Irons bound, Thou basely threw'st into Lob's pound Where still he lies. 1667G. Digby Elvira ii. 23 He hath us faith Fast in Lobb's Pound. 1694Echard Plautus 8 If Mr Constable and his Watch shou'd pick m'up and in wi' me to Lobs-Pound? 1796F. Burney Camilla iv. iii, What! are you all in Hob's pound? 1829Bentham Justice & Cod. Petit. Wks. 1843 V. 494 From the sheriff the information would, in course, pass on to the defendant, when the time came for his finding himself in Lob's pound. 1895E. Anglia Gloss., Lobspound, to be in any difficulty or perplexed state. |