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heavy manual work imposed as a punishment, esp. during a prison sentence.
Compulsory labour, generally combined with imprisonment or confinement, as a punishment for criminals. In later use especially in penal servitude, n.…
slang. (a) Short for hard labour n. at compounds 4 (now historical). (b) U.S. Short for hard time n. at compounds 4.