Similar words: housework, working hour, dark horse, work, at work, works, workout, work up. Meaning: n. 1. a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor 2. a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months.
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31 Many workers, who had earned the princely wage of ￡3-￡4 in jet's heyday, ended in the workhouse.
32 Paupers were often taken back from the workhouse to their own parishes for burial.
33 In addition to his duties as medical officer to the workhouse he was a magistrate and the coroner for the Borough of Bedford.
34 His parents subsequently became master and matron of Poplar union workhouse.
35 The visitors' committee did not always support the workhouse master.
36 The Workhouse Act of 1723 had empowered parishes to apply a workhouse test by denying relief to those who refused to enter.
37 They discussed some workhouse business together, and then Mr Bumble looked hopefully at the teapot.
38 This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents.
39 Mr. Chapman enquired of the Board whether the paupers and children should be allowed to have money in the workhouse.
40 When the staff feel that the workhouse is ready for inspection the visitors arrive.
41 The girl lay stiffly, half sitting on top of her bed,(sentencedict.com) a gaunt little scarecrow in patched and threadbare workhouse reach-me-downs.
42 In 1903 the Poplar Guardians leased for one year a new workhouse specifically for the use of able-bodied men.
43 One would have thought it was the congregation of a workhouse.
44 There is always the workhouse.
45 The beggar at last resorted to the workhouse.
46 Stella: The New York State sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse.
47 In the XIX century the event got out of hand more than once and as a result the handout was first moved from the church to the poorhouse and later still to the Old Workhouse.
48 Nothing was done to save these women from the twin evils of begging or the workhouse.
49 Mrs Symmons sent for a hackney coach to remove Eliza and her dead child from her house to the Marylebone Workhouse infirmary.
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