| 单词 | bail-dock | 
| 释义 | bail-dockbale-dockn. Obsolete.   At the Old Bailey, London, (formerly) ‘a small room taken from one of the corners of the court, and left open at the top; in which, during the trials, are put some of the malefactors.’  Scots Mag. 1753 XV. 42/1. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > place where court is held > 			[noun]		 > enclosure for prisoner(s) > in specific court bail-dock1624 1624    T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον  iii. 159  				The sessions is dissolved, the bench and bale-docke cleered. 1662    T. Ellwood Hist. Life 		(1767)	 148  				Away I was taken and thrust into the Bail-dock to my other Friends who had been called before me. 1671    W. Penn Truth Rescued 8  				I was commanded to the Bale-Dock for Turbulency and Impertinency. 1716    London Gaz. No. 5399/3  				James Goodman..made his Escape..by leaping over the Spikes of the Bail-Dock and the Rails at the Sessions-House in the Old-Baily. 1823    C. Lamb Quakers' Meeting in  Elia 106  				I remembered Penn before his accusers, and Fox in the bail-dock. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019). <  | 
	
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