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单词 st thomas watering
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St Thomas (a, also of) Watering(s)
St Thomas (a, also of) Watering(s) and variants: the site of public executions for Surrey until the 18th cent. Hence in allusive use: death by execution. Now historical.The site was located two miles from London on the pilgrims' route to Canterbury, near a stream where horses were watered.
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St Thomas (a, also of) Watering(s)c1405
gemonies1598
Execution-Dock1694
barathrum1849
c1405The wateryng of Seint Thomas [see sense 14a].
c1450 (c1425) Brut (Cambr. Kk.1.12) 380 (MED) Þe King and his prysoners passyd forth by ham, til he com vnto Seint Thomas watryng.
c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Dvv They come home by Tiburne, or S. Thomas of Watrings.
1561 Newe Enterlude Script. Queene Hester sig. Civ I pray god they may spede, Euen as honestly, As he that from stelyng, goth to sent thomas watryng In his yong age.
1615 J. Taylor Cast over Water sig. C3v He at S. Thomas Watr'ings may goe swing.
1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 87 He may..come to read a lecture Vpon Aquinas at S. Thomas a Waterings, And so goe forth a Laureat in hempe circle!
1723 Brit. Jrnl. 6 July 5/1 Yesterday the two Althoes, Father and Son, were executed at St. Thomas's Watering.
1796 J. Burchell Arrangem. & Digest of Law 163 The usual place for execution of capital offenders in his [sc. the Marshall's] custody, is at Saint Thomas à Waterings.
1886 Anecd. Illustr. Old Test. Texts 89 John Penry, the Welsh martyr, was executed at St. Thomas a-Watering, Surrey, as secretly as it could be done, for fear of a popular tumult.
1905 T. Codrington Rom. Roads Brit. (ed. 2) 387 Such a line would cross the Old Kent Road near St. Thomas' Watering.
2002 New Statesman (Nexis) 1 Apr. The only place he [sc. Chaucer] might know is St Thomas a Watering, along the Old Kent Road.
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