workhouse

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.

   “"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." / "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve.[…]"”

2. isim A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.
3. isim A place of manufacture; a factory.

   “He carefully guarded his secret, but it got out, and, when he had his invention almost completed, some men broke open his workhouse and carried it away. It was afterward returned, but his plan had been copied, and from the copy many machines were made.”

4. fiil To place (a person) in the workhouse (institution for the poor).