(especially, UK) : childbirth; a department for childbirth (in a hospital); the suite of rooms for that department.
(especially, UK) : childbirth; a department for childbirth (in a hospital); the suite of rooms for that department.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(Scotland) The travail in childbirth.
Downlying is an old-fashioned term with two related meanings: the time you retire to bed for the night, and in Scottish English, the period of labor in childbirth — when a woman was said to be 'lying down' through travail. The childbirth sense reflects historical language around confinement and labor that was once widely used. Both meanings center on the act of lying down at a significant moment, whether sleep or the hard work of bringing a new life into the world. A genuinely archaic term, but poetic in its plainness.
(archaic) To be brought to bed in childbirth.
(UK, healthcare) An inpatient unit for women who have mental health issues around the time of pregnancy or childbirth.