Watchhouse: Definition and part of speech

Watchhouse

  1. n. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
  2. n. A house in which a watch or guard is placed.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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