Crossword clues for bridewell
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bridewell \Bride"well\, n. A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"prison," 1550s, from Bridewell, house of correction in London, originally a royal lodging (given by Edward VI for a hospital, later converted to a prison) near Bride's Well, short for St. Bridget's Well.
Wiktionary
n. (context dated in British rare elsewhere English) A small prison, or a police station that has cells.
Wikipedia
Bridewell may refer to:
Buildings:- Any prison in Britain; especially
- Bridewell Palace, London; later a prison, the original "bridewell".
- a village lock-up
- Central Police Station, Bristol, originally a bridewell
- Clerkenwell Bridewell, London
- Tothill Fields Bridewell, Westminster, London
- Wymondham Bridewell, Norfolk
- Ollie Bridewell (1985–2007) British motorcycle racer
- Tommy Bridewell (b.1988) British motorcycle racer
- The Bridewells aka The Bridewell Taxis, Leeds-based British indie rock group active from 1987 to 1993
Usage examples of "bridewell".
Doarty because of a certain sixty, weary, beerless days that the pock-marked one had spent at the Bridewell on Mr.
So that he was about to make her mittimus to Bridewell when I departed.
If such forward sluts were sent to Bridewell, it would be better for them.
Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward or, failing that, the bridewell and an appearance in the court next day before Mr Tobias or, he being the solicitor rather, old Wall, he meant to say, or Mahony which simply spelt ruin for a chap when it got bruited about.
Robert Levett was buried in the church-yard of Bridewell, between one and two in the afternoon.
And then--and then, who knows But the kind Grave Turns on you, and you feel the convict Worm, In that black bridewell working out his term, Hanker and grope and crave?
And warn't it me as had been tried afore, and as had been know'd up hill and down dale in Bridewells and Lock-Ups?
And warn’t it me as had been tried afore, and as had been know’d up hill and down dale in Bridewells and Lock-Ups?
Sarah recognized most of them: Colonel Ross and Abercrombie, Sir Edward Fulbright and Roger Bridewell, Arthur Conan Doyle and Sir Alexander Cromwell, Constable Faversham and Doctor Martinson, and the one-armed fisherman, Brackley.
Through its tiny window I could see the bell-tower of Bridewell Prison and, far beyond it, the north end of London Bridge, a sight that cheered me greatly and seemed to make my exile –.