[f. WAREHOUSE sb.] trans. To deposit or secure (goods) in a warehouse; to deposit (furniture) for safe keeping, a charge being made for storage; to place (imported goods) in a bonded warehouse pending the payment of the import duty. Hence Warehoused ppl. a.
1799. Hull Advertiser, 9 Nov., 4/2. 16 bales of sugar which have been landed and warehoused.
1819. Act 59 Geo. III., c. 52. Table A—Inwards, Warehoused Goods. For a List of those Goods which may be warehoused, or otherwise secured on Importation into Great Britain without Payment of Duty in the First Instance, See Table F.
1874. Daily News, 16 Feb., 6/5. A building … in which will be found complete accommodation for warehousing the valuables of noblemen and gentlemen in their absence from town.
1886. C. Scholl, Phraseol. Dict., II. 832. Any cotton you may consign to us will be warehoused pending your further instructions.
b. transf. and fig.
1824. Landor, Imag. Conv., Washington & Franklin, Wks. 1846, I. 124. Their stores of intellect are not squandered in the regions of fancy … but warehoused and kept sound at home.
1835. Edin. Rev., LXI. 457. Our coal mines may be regarded as vast magazines of hoarded, or warehoused power.
1855. Smedley, Occult Sciences, 149. Its wondrous fount, from the days of Herodotus to our own, has been warehoused by small poets as part of their stock in trade of sparkling illustrations.
c. slang. To put in prison.
1881. Punch, 12 Feb., 71. D’you want to get us both ‘warehoused’?
