Workhouse

1. n. A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
2. n. A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
3. n. A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.

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.