workhouse
workhouse is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
- 2.A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- alembic
- alveary
- armory
- atelier
- beauty
- beehive
- bindery
- branch
- bureau
- business
- cabinet
- caldron
- cannery
- crucible
- dock
- dockyard
- factory
- forcing
- forge
- foundery
- foundry
- furnace
- hive
- hotbed
- hothouse
- industry
- institute
- kitchen
- lab
- laboratory
- list
- loom
- manufactory
- matrix
- mill
- mint
- nailery
- nursery
- office
- parlor
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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