send v Phr send down: (a) to imprison; (b) to dismiss from a woods or lumber camp.
1887 Colonist Christmas No 5 He asked me where I came from. I told him the place (in Dorset), and I think he wanted to let me off; but Martin, the Irishman, swore so against me that I was sent down. This was my first and last Visit to Court. T 43/7-.64 An' if you weredn't up to the standard, if you couldn't do either [any] job reasonably, they'd send you down.
