press-yardn.

Brit.

/ˈprɛsjɑːd/, U.S.

/ˈprɛsjɑrd/

Forms: see press v.¹ and yard n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: press v.¹, yard n.¹

Etymology: < press v.¹ + yard n.¹

Now historical.

A yard at the former Newgate Prison, London, where the torture of peine forte et dure (see peine n.) is believed to have originally been carried out, and from which, at a later period, condemned prisoners started for the place of execution. Cf. press v.¹ 1c.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > place of torture > specific

press-yard1645

1645 Mercurius Civicus 29 May 945 Having surreptitiously gotten the Key of the presse-yard in Newgate, where he lay.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. v. 99 It was as good and all one, as if God had done it with the Country, or else the Presse-yard had ended the quarrell.

1717 (title) The history of the Press-Yard: or a brief account of the customs and occurrences..to be met with in..His Majesty's Goal of Newgate in London.

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 161/1 Their wives and children were admitted into the press-yard to take their leave of them before they set out [for the gallows at Tyburn].

1780 Newgate Cal. V. 109 Being brought down into the press-yard, his irons were knocked off, and he was put into the cart.

1840 R. H. Barham Execution in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 302 Round the debtors' door Are gathered a couple of thousand or more; As many await At the press-yard gate.

1882 Fortn. Rev. June 799 The whole place except the press yard was so dark that candles..were used all day long.

1906 Daily Chron. 5 Oct. 4/7 The new Old Bailey... There will be no ‘peine forte et dure’, commemorated in the name Press Yard.

1969 Archit. Hist. 12 50 On 8 September 1762 a fire broke out in the press yard at Newgate, killing two prisoners and causing extensive damage.

1995 J. Hoeber Rhetoric of Suffering 129 Not for nothing was the Press-Yard of Newgate adorned with the Joban text, ‘Man is born to Trouble as the Sparks fly upward’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	press-yard
释义	press-yardn. Brit. /ˈprɛsjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈprɛsjɑrd/ Forms: see press v.¹ and yard n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: press v.¹, yard n.¹ Etymology: < press v.¹ + yard n.¹ Now historical. A yard at the former Newgate Prison, London, where the torture of peine forte et dure (see peine n.) is believed to have originally been carried out, and from which, at a later period, condemned prisoners started for the place of execution. Cf. press v.¹ 1c. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > [noun] > place of torture > specific press-yard1645 1645 Mercurius Civicus 29 May 945 Having surreptitiously gotten the Key of the presse-yard in Newgate, where he lay. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. v. 99 It was as good and all one, as if God had done it with the Country, or else the Presse-yard had ended the quarrell. 1717 (title) The history of the Press-Yard: or a brief account of the customs and occurrences..to be met with in..His Majesty's Goal of Newgate in London. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 161/1 Their wives and children were admitted into the press-yard to take their leave of them before they set out [for the gallows at Tyburn]. 1780 Newgate Cal. V. 109 Being brought down into the press-yard, his irons were knocked off, and he was put into the cart. 1840 R. H. Barham Execution in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 302 Round the debtors' door Are gathered a couple of thousand or more; As many await At the press-yard gate. 1882 Fortn. Rev. June 799 The whole place except the press yard was so dark that candles..were used all day long. 1906 Daily Chron. 5 Oct. 4/7 The new Old Bailey... There will be no ‘peine forte et dure’, commemorated in the name Press Yard. 1969 Archit. Hist. 12 50 On 8 September 1762 a fire broke out in the press yard at Newgate, killing two prisoners and causing extensive damage. 1995 J. Hoeber Rhetoric of Suffering 129 Not for nothing was the Press-Yard of Newgate adorned with the Joban text, ‘Man is born to Trouble as the Sparks fly upward’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1645
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