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Triangles

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Tied up at the triangles. A machine to which a soldier was at one time fastened when flogged.

“He was tied up at the triangles, and branded ‘D.ʹ”—Ouidu: Under Two Flags, chap. vii.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Triads
Trials at Bar
Triamond
Triangles
Triangular Part of Man (The)
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