'Workhouses' definitions:
Definition of 'Workhouses'
From: GCIDE
- Workhouse \Work"house`\, n.; pl. Workhouses. [AS. weorch[=u]s.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse. [1913 Webster]