Crossword-Solution: WORKHOUSE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Workhouse | n. | A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop. |
| Workhouse | n. | A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor. |
| Workhouse | n. | A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WORKHOUSE | anagram | HOUSEWORK |
We have 7 clues for the answer “WORKHOUSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Jail of a sort. | 1 answer |
| Where poor Brits labored | 1 answer |
| a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor | 1 answer |
| A COUNTY JAIL THAT HOLDS PRISONERS FOR PERIODS UP TO 18 MONTHS | 11 answers |
| factory | 16 answers |
| hive of industry | 44 answers |
| Workshop | 46 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with WORKHOUSE (5)
That’s yonder,—the great brick house, you know,—the workhouse, most folks call it; but I mean to do my work first, and go there to be idle and enjoy myself.
His brother John was in as bad a case, for he was quite out, and had only begged leave of his master, the biscuit-maker, to lodge in an outhouse belonging to his workhouse, where he only lay upon straw, with some biscuit-sacks, or bread-sacks, as they called them, laid upon it, and some of the same sacks to cover him.
Lower says, with Nicholas Barham, who died in the workhouse at Wadhurst in 1788; and another continues to be represented by a wheelwright at Wadhurst of the same name.
Shortly after the young man came of age, my grandmother died, and my father, in about a year, married the daughter of a farmer, from whom he expected some little fortune, but who very much deceived him, becoming a bankrupt almost immediately after the marriage of his daughter, and himself and family going into the workhouse.
The chaplain in the great house where I was born told me it was a noble name; it was odd enough, he said, that the only three noble names in the county were to be found in the great house; mine was one; the other two were Devereux and Bohun.' 'What do you mean by the great house?' 'The workhouse.' 'Is it possible that you were born there?' 'Yes, young man; and as you now speak softly and kindly, I will tell you my whole tale.
Quotes with WORKHOUSE (3)
The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much as the malice intrinsic to the mental hospital system has been excused by the need to provide treatment.
Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?
The reason why Jane’s spirit was not broken was that she had a secret. It was her own special secret and she had told no one else except Peggy. She locked it in her heart and hugged it to herself. It was this glorious secret that filled her with such irrepressible joy and exhilaration. But it was also to be the cause of her greatest disaster, and her life-long grief. The rumour that her father was a high-born gentleman in Parliament must have reached Jane’s ears when she was …
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1963–2009).