Definition of Workhouse. Meaning of Workhouse. Synonyms of Workhouse

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Definition of Workhouse

Workhouse
Workhouse Work"house`, n.; pl. Workhouses. [AS. weorch?s.] 1. A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop. 2. A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor. 3. A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.

Meaning of Workhouse from wikipedia

- In Britain and Ireland, a workhouse (Welsh: tloty lit. "poor-house") was an institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered...
- Bethnal Green workhouse Bow workhouse Camberwell workhouse Chelsea workhouse Christchurch workhouse City of London workhouse Clapham workhouse Clerkenwell...
- Workhouse infirmaries were established in the nineteenth century in England. They developed from the Workhouse and were run under the Poor law regime....
- The Lambeth Workhouse was a workhouse in Lambeth, London. The original workhouse opened in 1726 in Princes Road (later, Black Prince Road). From 1871 to...
- The Eastville Workhouse (officially named the Barton Regis workhouse) was a workhouse situated at 100 Fishponds Road, in Bristol, U.K. It was converted...
- Whittlesey Workhouse was a workhouse in the Cambridgeshire town of Whittlesey. Its use as a workhouse ceased in 1930 and it was subsequently demolished...
- United States. The complex began as a prison farm called the Occoquan Workhouse for nonviolent offenders serving short sentences. The District established...
- The Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion was a rebellion of enslaved South Carolinians that took place in Charleston, South Carolina, in July 1849. On...
- The Andover workhouse scandal of the mid-1840s exposed serious defects in the administration of the English 'New Poor Law' (the Poor Law Amendment Act)...
- The Waterford Union Workhouse was a workhouse built in 1839–41 on a six-acre site to the south of Waterford in Ireland. The Waterford Poor Law Union was...