Slang. Also quad. [Of uncertain origin; commonly regarded as identical with quod QUAD sb.1, but there is no evidence that this is really the case. See quot. a. 1700.] Prison.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Quod, Newgate; also any Prison, tho’ for Debt.
1752. Fielding, Amelia, I. xii. There is not such a pickpocket in the whole quad.
1795. in Spirit Pub. Jrnls., IV. 226. Coming home, was cast in quod Till subjects paid his ransom.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, liv. She’s … grudged me a hundred pound to get me out of quod.
1862. Wraxall, trans. Hugo’s ‘Les Misérables,’ IV. x. (1877), 7. Do you know I have been in quod for a fortnight?
Comb. 1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Quod-cove, the keeper of a gaol.
