What does "workhouse" mean?
Workhouse: A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
Additional senses
- 2.A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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