crimping house

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A (usually low-rise) building into which men were decoyed and plied with alcoholic drink to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers. historical
    — Under pretense of taking up mendicants and vagabonds, they had scoured the streets at night, seizing upon honest mechanics, or their sons, and hurrying them to their crimping-houses, for the sole purpose of extorting money from them as a ransom.

词形变化

crimping houses plural crimp house alternative crimping-house alternative
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