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spin-house Now Hist.
Also 8 spinn-.
[ad. Du. spinhuis (MDu. spinhuys), G. spinnhaus. Cf. spinning-house.]
A house or building in which persons are employed in spinning. a. In reference to Continental usage: A house of correction or penitentiary for women. b. A workhouse.
a.a1700Evelyn Diary 19 Aug. 1641, [At Amsterdam] we stepp'd in to see the Spin-house, a kind of Bridewell, where incorrigible and lewd women are kept in discipline and labour. 1703tr. Nieuhoff's Voy. to E. Indies 306 For the Encouraging of Virtue and Suppressing of Debauchery in lewd Women, a Spin-House has been erected here. 1777J. Howard State of Prisons 121 The States do not transport criminals: but men are put to labour in the Rasp-houses, and women do proper work in the Spin-Houses.
b.1702in Brand Newcastle (1789) I. 327 note, Work-house, alias spinn-house. |