Examples of 'workhouse' in a sentence
Meaning of "workhouse"
A workhouse is a public institution in which the poor and destitute are housed and required to do hard work
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- An institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.
- A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.
- A factory; a place of manufacture.
- To place (a person) in the workhouse (institution for the poor).
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All support outside the workhouse was to be abolished.
The workhouse was not just a custodial institution.
Little of the original workhouse interior remains.
Workhouse residents were forbidden to leave the building.
I went down to the workhouse to check the records.
Patty has an unblemished record in the workhouse.
The workhouse blues ail day.
Then they will be facing the workhouse.
The workhouse sits way out a.
And they got no windows in the workhouse.
The workhouse without a living soul.
Definitely we will refer him to the workhouse.
The workhouse concept was formally abolished.
He may be forced on the mercy of the workhouse.
The workhouse is now a paint shop.
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Here you will stay or go to the workhouse.
A workhouse was erected southeast of the village.
They are but a step from the workhouse.
The workhouse was a poor law institution.
I must have put him in the workhouse.
The workhouse found him work chopping wood.
Only if you go to the workhouse with him.
The workhouse mother lined us all up.
But be sent to such dens of iniquity as a workhouse.
Within sight of the workhouse building is a historic abbey.
Men will not submit to being incarcerated in a workhouse.
The workhouse is a machine for grinding rogues honest.
You had the proper workhouse cough.
A workhouse boy and a sneak.
Not very successfully if he ends up in the workhouse.
He was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine.
She can become a whore or go to the workhouse.
I called at the workhouse yesterday.
Our neighbor was a nursemaid from the workhouse.
Your boy was workhouse starved.
Got it off the lass at the workhouse.
Orphan house to workhouse to whorehouse.
We helped some migrants escape a prison workhouse.
The workhouse is long gone for us.
You and your sister were in the workhouse.
Workhouse practise against ringworm.
You do not know about the workhouse.
Workhouse established approximate date.
The unemployed were forced into the workhouse.
His mother blames the workhouse for his demise.
As a kid he spent some time in the workhouse.
This is also where the old workhouse building is located.
His father might have died in the workhouse.
His last years were spent in a workhouse and he died in an asylum.
I know you are no stranger to the workhouse.
