1. Noun
A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
2. Noun
A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
3. Noun
A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
4. Noun
a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor
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