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Workhouse :: Workhouse (n.) A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.

Workhouse :: Workhouse (n.) A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.

Poorhouse :: Poorhouse (n.) A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse.

Workhouse :: Workhouse (n.) A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse..

Bridewell :: Bridewell (n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse..

Dietary :: Dietary (n.) A rule of diet; a fixed allowance of food, as in workhouse, prison, etc..

Workhouses :: Workhouses (pl. ) of Workhous.

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