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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pound for lobs or louts; a prison. “The term is still in use, and is often applied to the juvenile prison made for a child between the feet of a grown-up person.”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A prison.

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