house of correction
nounDefinitions
A kind of residential penitentiary facility, built after the passing of the Elizabethan…
A kind of residential penitentiary facility, built after the passing of the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), where those who were "unwilling to work", including vagrants and beggars, were set to work.
A prison.
The neighborhood
- neighborapproved school
- neighborpoorhouse
- neighborprison
- neighborreformatory
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA