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† picked-hatch Obs.
Also pickt-, pict-, pick-hatch.
[f. picked a. + hatch n.1]
lit. A hatch or half door, surmounted by a row of pikes or spikes, to prevent climbing over; spec. a brothel; as proper name, see quot. 1832.[Cf.1616E. S. Cupid's Whirligig F iij, Set some pickes vpon your hatch, and I pray professe to keepe a Bawdy⁓house.] 1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. ii. 19 Goe..to your Mannor of Pickt-hatch. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie iii. xi, Did euer any man ere heare him talke But of Pick-hatch, or of some Shoreditch baulke? 1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. i, The decay'd Vestalls of Pickt-hatch..That keepe the fire a-liue, there. 1616― Ev. Man in Hum. i. ii, From the Burdello it might come as well, The Spittle: or Pict-hatch. 1832Toone Gloss., Pickt hatch, this was a cant word, in the time of Queen Elizabeth, for a part of the town, supposed to be Turnmill Street, Clerkenwell, then noted for houses of ill fame... The term was derived from the hatch or half door, in houses of this description, being guarded with iron spikes, as the houses of sheriffs officers are at this time.
attrib.1598Marston Sco. Villanie i. iii. C vj, His old Cynick Dad Hath forc'd him cleane forsake his Pickhatch drab. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 89 These bee your picke-hatch curtesan wits. a1634Randolph Muses' Looking-gl. iv. iii. (1638) 72 My Pick-hatch grange, And Shoreditch farme, and other premises Adjoyning. |