¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prisoning
1. prison [v] - See also: prison
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prisoning
Literary usage of Prisoning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ode on the Anniversary of the Fifth Half Century of the Landing of Gov. John by William Wetmore Story (1878)
"... Tunnels the hills, speeds it across the main, And, prisoning in the hold a
fiery slave, Bids him his huge arms heave,—and o'er the wave The ship, ..."
2. The Black Douglas by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1899)
"CHAPTER VI THE Prisoning OF MALISE THE SMITH [Now these things, material to the
life and history of William, sixth Earl of Douglas, are not written from ..."