Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Workhouse

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Workhouse


Subjects in this Topic:

(1):

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

(2):

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

(3):

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