bastille

A former fortress and prison in Paris, France, the storming of which in 1789 began the French Revolution.

Chiefly in French contexts: a bastion (“projecting part of a rampart or other fortification”) or tower of a castle; also, a fortified tower or other building; or a small citadel or fortress.

H' incounters Talgol, routs the Bear, / And takes the Fidler Prisoner; / Conveys him to enchanted Castle, / There shuts him fast in wooden Bastile.

A jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners.

Thither arriv'd th' advent'rous Knight / And bold Squire from their Steeds alight, / At th' outward Wall, near which [there] stands / A Bastile built t'imprison hands; / By strange enchantment made to fetter / The lesser parts, and free the greater. / For though the Body may creep through, / The Hands in Grate are fast enough.

―The devil it is! ſaid I—but I vvill go to ten thouſand Baſtiles firſt— […]

Synonym of workhouse (“an institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work”).

The fortified encampment of an army besieging a place; also, any of the buildings in such an encampment.

VVhen they ſhould have ſtood to it in field, and fought, then they fled back to their tends: vvhen they vvere to guard and defend their trench and rampart, they ſurrendered them to the enemy: good no vvhere, neither in battel nor in baſtil.

To confine (someone or something) in, or as if in, a bastille (noun noun sense 2.1) or prison; to imprison.

Inſtead of forging Chains for Foreigners, / Baſtile thy Tutor: Grandeur All thy Aim?

[W]hy if you don't ſcamper, you'll be baſtil'd, before you can ſay, "Killarney."