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cob-castle
‘A satirical name for any building which overtops those around it, more usually applied to a prison’ (Halliwell 1847–78).
a1687Cotton Voy. Irel. iii. Poems (1689) 197 A Castle there stood..Upon such a steep Rock..'tis prettiest Cob-castle e'er I beheld.
[Cf. Cob-hall in the following: 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss., Cob-Hall, a small house standing in..the Market-place at Kirton-in-Lindsey. There is some reason for believing it to stand on the site of the prison of the Lord of the Manor.] |