subs. (old).—1. A prison; a pound; the stocks: generic for any place of confinement.
1603. DEKKER, The Batchelars Banquet [GROSART (1886), i. 156]. He ran wilfully … into the peril, of LOB’S POUND.
1663. BUTLER, Hudibras, i. 3, 909.
| Crowdero whom, in irons bound, | |
| Thou basely threw’st into LOB’S POUND. |
1671. CROWNE, Juliana, i. 1. Between ’um both he’s got into LOBB’S POUND. [Note (MAIDMENT, 1870)]. Jocularly, a prison or place of confinement. The phrase is still used and applied to the prison made for a child between the feet of a grown-up person.
c. 1696. B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. LOBCOCK, In LOB’S POUND, Laid by the Heels, or clap’d up in Jail.
1694. ECHARD, Plautus’s Comedies Made English [NARES]. But in what a fine pickle shou’d I be, if Mr. constable and his watch shou’d pick m’ up and in wi’ me to LOBS-POUND? Out o’ which damn’d kitchin, to morrow must I be dish’d up for the whipping post; and not ha’ the benefit o’ the layety to plead i’ m’ own defence.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1819. T. MOORE, Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, p. 18. The cull broke away, as he would from LOB’S POUND.
2. (old).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see MONOSYLLABLE.
1623. MASSINGER, The Duke of Milan, iii. 2.
| Who forced the gentleman, to save her credit, | |
| To marry her, and say he was the party | |
| Found in LOB’S POUND. |
