单词 | bridewell |
释义 | bridewelln. Now chiefly historical. A prison, a jail; esp. a house of correction in which inmates are put to work. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > reformatory prison workhouse?c1475 house of correction1575 bridewell1583 work-jail1619 correction-housec1625 rasp house1651 bettering house1735 bettering mansion1740 penitentiary house1779 penitentiary1807 work farm1835 farm1857 pen1881 prison-industrial complex1965 1583 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 389 No conuenynt hows hathe been prouyded for a Brydewell to keep and stay the sayd ydle persons to somme honest woorke and labor. 1590 E. Vaughan Method Reading Old & New Test. Pref. There should be no such neede of Prisons for Malefactors, of Bridewells for Libellors, nor of Hatchets for traitors. a1591 H. Smith Poore Mans Teares (1592) 8 To Briderwell [sic; 1599 Bridewell] with these roagues. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iii. xix. 349 Breaking vp the worke-iails, or bride-wells, by right of warre. c1689 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) 147 The rebells that were imprisoned in the castle and bridewell at Taunton. 1704 E. Welchman Pract. Disc. Dives & Lazarus 38 Jayls and Bridewells are in truth the properest Places for lusty Vagabonds. 1777 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales i. 8 There are very few Bridewells in which any work is done, or can be done. 1837 S. Lewis Topogr. Dict. Ireland 130 A bridewell..with separate day-rooms and airing-yards. 1885 M. Davitt Leaves from Prison Diary I. 32 Various terms of previous imprisonments..in county bridewells. 1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iii. xiv. 263 While he has been in the bridewell several times, he has never been severely punished for his offenses. 1958 B. Behan Borstal Boy i. 25 I heard the Black Maria back into the yard, and they were taken off, and the Bridewell was quiet again. 2001 J. T. Hallinan Going up River v. 67 By the early seventeenth century, there were perhaps 170 bridewells scattered throughout England. Compounds C1. General attributive and objective, as bridewell cell, bridewell house, bridewell keeper, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [adjective] carceral1570 bridewell1589 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. B.iijv The stocke-keeper of the Bridewel-house of Canterburie. 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xx. sig. Ev The Bride-wel-man, and the Beadle. 1664 T. Killigrew Parsons Wedding iv. ii, in Comedies & Trag. 128 This is better then..Bridewell Hemp, brown bread and whip-cord. 1766 E. Lloyd Methodist 45 Needy Merit must not dare To hope..thy Alms to share, Commit that to the Bridewell-lash. 1864 Family Treasury Sunday Reading 175/1 To send you out of it, as out of a bridewell cell, to seek your every thing in Jesus. 1919 S. O'Kelly Parnellite ii. 37 (stage direct.) Policemen turn to the bridewell door, there is an unbolting of locks on the other side. 2012 A. Eccles Vagrancy in Law & Pract. under Old Poor Law ii. 44 After the 1740 Vagrant Act came into force Dorset vagrants were passed by the bridewell keeper to the bridewells in neighbouring counties. C2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > one who has been long or often in jail Newgate bird1580 bridewell bird1590 jail-bird1603 prison-birda1640 old hand1826 repeater1873 old lag1910 loser1912 in-and-out boy1937 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B3v Skufling in the kennel together by the eares like bride well birds. 1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. i. 78 He..concluded by ordering the three bridewell birds to be hauled out of the black hole..and soundly flogged. 1886 J. P. Altgeld Our Penal Machinery & Its Victims (rev. ed.) 140 The police call them jail birds, or Bridewell birds, and seem to take a delight in ‘running them in’ again at the earliest possible opportunity. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun] > custody > consigning to > specific bridewelling1660 1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos i. 70 The doctrine and practice of..banishing, bridling, bridewelling, branding, [etc.]. 1687 H. Care Draconica 12 Here's Bride-welling, Banishing and Selling of People to Slavery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bridewellv. Now rare. transitive. To commit (a person) to a bridewell; to imprison. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)] beclosec1000 setc1100 steekc1175 prison?c1225 adightc1275 imprison1297 laya1325 keepc1330 presentc1380 locka1400 throwc1422 commise1480 clapc1530 shop1548 to lay up1565 incarcerate1575 embar1590 immure1598 hole1608 trunk1608 to keep (a person) darka1616 carceir1630 enjaila1631 pocket1631 bridewell1733 bastille1745 cage1805 quod1819 bag1824 carcerate1839 to send down1840 jug1841 slough1848 to send up1852 to put away1859 warehouse1881 roundhouse1889 smug1896 to bang up1950 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry Pref. p. vi Tenants, who can bear to be insulted, assaulted, kick'd, cuff'd, and Bridewell'd with more Patience than Gentlemen are endow'd with. 1764 St. James's Mag. Mar. 103 What an age and country do we live in; if a poor man must be newgated, pilloried, and bridewelled, for the want of natural, or literary abilities! 1993 Irish Times 6 Aug. 4/6 Young saddle thieves..attempted to bring their booty over the RDS wall and found themselves arrested and Bridewelled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1583v.1733 |
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