Brewer's: First-class Hard Labour

Under this sentence, the prisoner sleeps on a plank bed without a mattress, and spends six or eight hours a day turning a hard crank, or treading a wheel.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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