Duke of Exeter's daughter en · PROPN
Etymology
After Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter, who served as constable of the Tower of London during the period when the rack was in use there.
Meanings
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(UK, obsolete, slang) The rack (torture device).
If we hadn't lagged you when we had, they'd be stretching you now on the Duke of Exeter's Daughter where they racked Guy Fawkes, and you'd be bleating out everything you know and a lot you don't know.
2022, Thomas B. Costain, For My Great Folly:
Forms
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| the Duke of Exeter's daughter | canonical | lexicographic |