Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
prisoners'base (which see, underprisoner ).
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Examples
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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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