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Definition of workhouses:
(n) :
(British, historical) An institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.
(n) :
(US) A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.
(n) :
(archaic) A place of manufacture; a factory.
(v) :
(British, transitive, historical) To place (a person) in the workhouse (institution for the poor).
Definition of workhouses:
(n) :
(British, historical) An institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.
(n) :
(US) A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.
(n) :
(archaic) A place of manufacture; a factory.
(v) :
(British, transitive, historical) To place (a person) in the workhouse (institution for the poor).
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