>>>BTW, I also threaten to eat her left arm ... some day when I'm really hungry ... and when she's not expecting it.
>>>I say left arm so she'll still have her better arm to write with, etc. She always bolts the hatch on her oubliette from the inside after that :-]
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>>What's an oubliette?
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>>Tamar
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>I'm sure the British have a new meaning, but it's a dungeon which is supposedly inescapable because the only entrance/exit is through a hatch in the ceiling.

No new meaning. It's from the French "oublier" and meant like somewhere to drop someone and forget about him.
Generally like a shaft in the ground, with a hatch.