Mount, the n.
1. London Bridge [one approached the Bridge up a short incline].
Regulator 20: The Mount, alias London Bridge. | ||
Discoveries (1774) 43: Stall on the Mount; stop on the Bridge. | ||
(con. 1710–25) Tyburn Chronicle II in (1999) xxvi: The Mount London-Bridge. | ||
Whole Art of Thieving [as cit. 1753]. |
2. (Can.) Montreal.
DSUE (8th edn) 758/1: C.20. |
3. (N.Z. prison, also mount rock) Mount Eden Men’s Prison, Auckland.
Parson in Prison 233: ‘The Arch’, as the prisoners called Archbishop Averill, was really loved in ‘The Mount’. | ||
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 119/1: mount, the n. 1 Mount Eden Men’s Prison [...] mount rock n. Mount Eden Men’s Prison. |
4. (NZ prison) Mount Eden Women’s Prison, Auckland.
NZEJ 13 36: (the) mount n. Mt. Eden Women's Prison, Auckland. | ‘Boob Jargon’ in