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Prison ship — Prison Pris on (?; 277), n. [F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See {Prehensile}, and cf. {Prize}, n., {Misprision}.] 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Prison ship — The forbidding form of the beached convict ship HMS Discovery at Deptford. Launched as a 10 gun sloop at Rotherhithe in 1789, the ship served as a convict hulk from 1818 until scrapped in February 1834.[1] … Wikipedia
Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument — Coordinates: 40°41′30″N 73°58′32″W / 40.6918°N 73.9756°W / 40.6918; 73.9756 … Wikipedia
prison ship — /ˈprɪzən ʃɪp/ (say prizuhn ship) noun a ship with a permanent mooring, used as a prison …
Success (prison ship) — The full rigged ship Success is best known as a travelling museum purporting to represent the horrors of penal transportation in Great Britain and the United States of America between the 1890s and the 1930s.OriginsThe Success was a former… … Wikipedia
Prison — Pris on (?; 277), n. [F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See {Prehensile}, and cf. {Prize}, n., {Misprision}.] 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Prison bars — Prison Pris on (?; 277), n. [F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See {Prehensile}, and cf. {Prize}, n., {Misprision}.] 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Prison base — Prison Pris on (?; 277), n. [F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See {Prehensile}, and cf. {Prize}, n., {Misprision}.] 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Prison breach — Prison Pris on (?; 277), n. [F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See {Prehensile}, and cf. {Prize}, n., {Misprision}.] 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Prison house — Prison Pris on (?; 277), n. [F., fr. L. prehensio, prensio, a seizing, arresting, fr. prehendre, prendere, to lay hold of, to seize. See {Prehensile}, and cf. {Prize}, n., {Misprision}.] 1. A place where persons are confined, or restrained of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
