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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Work·house n.; pl. Workhouses
 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.
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