Little-ease

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. British, idiomatic, obsolete, slang

    "[W]as not this fellovv's preaching a cauſe of all the trouble in Iſrael? VVas he not vvorthy to be caſt into bocardo or little eaſe?"

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"[W]as not this fellovv's preaching a cauſe of all the trouble in Iſrael? VVas he not vvorthy to be caſt into bocardo or little eaſe?"

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