wakefield (suomeksi)

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An industrial city in northern England; traditionally a centre for the cloth industry.
(surname, habitational, from=Old English)
Shorthand for the prison in Wakefield, established 1594.
''Being sent to Wakefield'' is used for meaning being sent to prison. (''English Dialect Dictionary part 6'' (1905), Joseph Wright, page 364)