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A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell the Black Holein a fort at Calcutta; into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20; 17656; and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. ().
