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Meaning of 'workhouse' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Workhouse [ n.]
- A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
- A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
- A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.

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