单词 | prison fellow |
释义 | prison fellown. Now rare. A companion in prison; a fellow prisoner. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > fellow-prisoner fellow prisoner1439 prison fellow1526 tower-fellow1709 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Coloss. iv. 10 Aristarchus my preson felowe [1582 (Rhem.) fellow-prisoner] saluteth you. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1745/2 Ye L. Tho. Grey being my prison fellow. 1613 C. Cotton Mirror Martyrs 118 While she was in prison shee practised with a prison fellow of hers, the wife of one Potkin, to liue both of them with 2 pence halfe-penny a day. 1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials III. xxxiii. 259 Bishop Barlow, who was prison-fellow with him. 1885 Littell's Living Age 25 Apr. 207/2 Once or twice a prison fellow was given him, and they sang together, but mostly he was alone. 1920 New Oxford (Pa.) Item 18 Mar. The prisoner complained about a week ago to some of his prison fellows of severe stomach aches. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1526 |
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