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wooden habeas (definition)
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Vulgar Tongue 1811
Tue May 03 2005 at 17:03:41
wooden
habeas
A
coffin
. A man who dies in
prison
is said to go out with a wooden habeas.
He went out with a wooden habeas ; i.e. his coffin.
The
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
.
habeas corpus