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little-eases

little-eases is the plural of little-ease.

Meaning of little-ease

Noun

little-ease (plural little-eases)

  1. (UK, idiomatic, obsolete, slang) The pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.
    • [W]as not this fellovv's preaching a cauſe of all the trouble in Iſrael? VVas he not vvorthy to be caſt into bocardo or little eaſe?1550, Hugh Latimer, “Sermon XIV. Preached before King Edward the Sixth and His Most Honourable Council, in His Court at Westminster, in the Year 1550.”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in...

Questions about little-eases

What is little-eases the plural of?
Little-eases is the plural of little-ease.

Words near little-eases in the dictionary

  1. Little York
  2. little yus
  3. Little's disease
  4. Little's law
  5. little-ease
  6. little-eases
  7. little-endian
  8. little-finger nail
  9. little-finger nails
  10. little-girlish
  11. little-go

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