单词 | execution-dock |
释义 | > as lemmasExecution-Dock Execution-Dock n. the dock (at Wapping) where criminal sailors were executed. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > place of > specific sites no man's landc1350 St Thomas (a, also of) Watering(s)c1405 gemonies1598 Execution-Dock1694 barathrum1849 1694 N. Luttrell Diary 1 Mar. in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 277 Some of the persons convicted lately for pyracy will be hanged at Execution Dock on Saturday next. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island vi. xxix. 241 It's..mighty like a hornpipe in a rope's end at Execution Dock by London town. < as lemmas |
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