| 单词 | labour yard |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslabour yard labour yard n. now historical (a) a yard in a prison or workhouse in which the inmates carry out enforced labour; (b) a yard established as an alternative to the workhouse, in which the unemployed carry out manual labour in return for basic relief from poverty. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > yard > place of enforced labour labour yard1835 1835 Hagerstown (Maryland) Mail 4 Dec. 3/2 He was honored with a block chained to his leg, while he is in the labor yard. 1904 Times 23 Nov. 10/1 The Poor Law had no longer at its disposal the same means for dealing with the unemployed as formerly in connexion with either the workhouse or with the labour yard. 2000 G. Miller On Fairness & Efficiency xi. 308 In three months alone in 1843, about 40,000 healthy but unemployed men were put through the labour yards. < as lemmas |
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