In Britain and Ireland: (in early use) an establishment providing paid work for the unemployed poor of a parish; (later) a public institution in…
a workhouse.
British. A workhouse. Now historical.
slang or regional. The workhouse. Cf. big house, n. 2a. Now historical.
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