workhouse

A prison in which limited sentences are served at manual labor.

A poorhouse.

A house in which work is carried on; a manufactory.

A house in which able-bodied paupers are compelled to work; a poorhouse.

A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.

A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.

A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.

formerly, 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 poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor