| 单词 | qualm-house | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasqualm-house   qualm-house  n. a house of torture; a prison, esp. one for those condemned to death; also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > instrument or place of torture > 			[noun]		 > place of torture quale-housec1225 qualm-housec1225 wall1528 butcheryc1540 torture-chamber1829 torture-house1898 c1225						 (?c1200)						    St. Katherine 		(Bodl.)	 		(1981)	 659  				He..tahte us treowe ileaue þurh þet eadi meiden Katerine, þet te king pineð i cwalm-hus [L. carcere] ant þencheð to acwellan. c1225						 (?c1200)						    St. Margaret 		(Royal)	 		(1934)	 11 (MED)  				Þe wari..het hire kasten in-to cwarterne & into cwalm-hus [c1225 Bodl. cwal-hus]. c1230						 (?a1200)						    Ancrene Riwle 		(Corpus Cambr.)	 		(1962)	 74  				Ha [sc. the soul] is her in uncuððe iput in a prisun, bitund in a cwalm hus. < as lemmas  | 
	
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