1) Jail of a sort 2) Poorhouse 3) Where poor Brits labored
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1) Prison 2) Workshop
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In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment. The earliest known use of the term dates from 1631, in an account by the mayor of Abingdon reporting that `wee haue erected wthn our borough a workehouse to sett poore people to worke`. .....
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• (n.) A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop. • (n.) A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor. • (n.) A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
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institution to provide employment for paupers and sustenance for the infirm, found in England from the 17th through the 19th century and also in ... [1 related articles]
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Building where the poor who were unable to support themselves were housed and made to work if able. The 1723 Workhouse Act stopped relief being given to the able-bodied who refused to enter the workhouse.
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In the UK, a former institution to house and maintain people unable to earn their own living, established under the ...
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A 19th century establishment for the provision of work for the unemployed poor of a parish; later an institution administered by Guardians of the Poor, in which paupers are lodged and the able-bodied set to work.
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Work'house` noun ;
plural Workhouses . [ Anglo-Saxon
weorch...s .]
1. A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
2. A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
3. A house where the town poor are maintained at public expe...
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A place of food and shelter, in exchange for work, provided for paupers in Britain the 19th century. Designed as an improvement on the previous arrangement, under which individual parishes were responsible for the poor (and often expelled them to neighbouring parishes in order to avoid looking after them), the workhouse became a harsh and hated ins...
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[
n] - (British) a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor 2. [n] - a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months
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In the UK, a former institution to house and maintain people unable to earn their own living, established under the poor law. Groups of parishes in England combined to build workhouses for the poor, the aged, the disabled, and orphaned children from about 1815 until about 1930. Sixteenth-century poor laws made parishes responsible for helping t...
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