Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as prisoners'base (which see, under prisoner).

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Examples

  • The schools adjoined each other, and he used to resist all the enticements of prison-base and cricket for the sake of waiting at the door of our school till it broke up, and then accompanying me home.

    Jane Talbot Charles Brockden Brown 1790

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