| 单词 | to go to the basket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go to the basket c. taken as the type of daily provisions; also, of alms formerly in special reference to the alms-basket on which poor prisoners in the public jails were mainly dependent for their sustenance; hence to go to the basket: i.e. to prison. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [phrase] > go to prison or be imprisoned to go to the basket1535 society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > charitableness or alms-giving > that which is given in charity > receptacle for alms disha1378 basket1535 alms-basketc1560 poor box1737 poor basket1814 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xxviii. 5 Blessed shal be thy baszkett, & thy stoare. 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry v. sig. K2v Pontalier [to Liladam, who is in custody for debt], Goe to the basket and repent. 1679 Tryals & Condemnation Jesuits 75 He was in the Marshalsey, and lived a poor mean life, and all the time fed upon the Basket. 1704 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed i. 12 God be prais'd, I am not brought to the Basket; though I had rather live on Charity than Rapine. ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. ii. 16 Living, as Prisoners in Ludgate, of the Basket. 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 80 Helpless, hopeless, if Thou spare not, Of their basket and their store. < as lemmas |
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