英语词汇“strong room”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

strong room

释义

strong room
A room made specially secure for the custody of persons or things; esp. a fire- and burglar-proof room in which valuables are deposited for safety, e.g. at the Mint, a bank, etc.
1761Foote Liar ii, Her father an Indian governor, shut up in the strong room [i.e. the ‘Black Hole’] at Calcutta, left her all his wealth.1818Scott Hrt. Midl. vii, The persons we have mentioned remained in the strong-room of the prison.1856G. Price Treat. Fire & Thief-proof Deposit. viii. 94 The doors of fire-proof closets and strong-rooms are constructed in the same manner as the doors of safes.Ibid. 99 Portable strong rooms are made altogether of wrought-iron plates.1863Reade Hard Cash xxxi, They took him to the strong-room, and manacled his ankles together.., and fastened his body down by broad bands of ticking.1885Law Times' Rep. LIII. 83/2 The plate..is now stowed away in the strong room of a bank.
attrib.1862Catal. Internat. Exhib. Brit. II. No. 6105, A model showing the arrangement of the bolts and locks as fixed on a strong-room door.

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