| 释义 |
† caperˈdewsie, caperˈdochy Obs.
[app. corruptions of cappadochio.]
The stocks; prison.
1600Heywood 1 Edw. IV, iv. iv. Wks. 1874 I. 72 My son's in Dybel here, in Caperdochy, itha gaol. Ibid. i. I. 86 He's in Capperdochy, Ned, in Stafford Jail, for a robbery. 1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 832, I here engage myself to loose ye And free your heels from caperdewsie. |