To imprison.
1678. A main part of [a bum-bailiff’s] office is to swear and bluster at their trembling prisoners, and cry, “Confound us, why do we wait? Let us shop him.”—‘Four for a penny,’ Harl. Misc., iv. 147. (Davies, quoted in the ‘Century Dict.’)
1844. It is claimed that General Jackson was guilty of a contempt of court for saying that he had “shopped” [Judge Hall].—Mr. Dean of Ohio, House of Repr., Jan. 2: Cong. Globe, p. 60, App.
1844. He took the responsibility of “shopping” him; and when he had shopped him, he very politely put him out of his lines, and told him to keep out.—Mr. Kennedy of Indiana, the same, Jan. 2: id., p. 94.
