Terms vs Tronk - What's the difference?
terms | tronk |
(South Africa) A prison.
* 1824 , William John Burchell, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa
* 1958 , Isobel Rae, The strange story of Dr James Barry
* 1985 , Lawrence George Green, Maureen Barnes, The best of Lawrence Green
As nouns the difference between terms and tronk
is that terms is while tronk is (south africa) a prison.tronk
English
Noun
(en noun)- It must here be explained that the tronk , or jail, is the general receptacle, not only of convicted criminals, but of such Hottentots or slaves as are found, improperly or illegally wandering about the country...
- The diary of another settler, who had been wrongfully imprisoned in the Tronk , and described the daily life there in no uncertain terms...
- It was built, as far as I can discover, because the Cape Argus rightly denounced the overcrowding of the old "tronk" on the waterfront.