Workhouse, * A prison where prisoners are kept in employment; a penitentiary. A house provided where the poor are taken care of, and kept in employment.

* From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, 1856 Edition. Please see Bouvier's Legal Abbreviations & Abbreviated References for help with obscure nomenclature & references.

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