spin-housen.
Now Historical.
A house or building in which persons are employed in spinning.
a. In reference to Continental usage: A house of correction or penitentiary for women.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > reformatory prison > for women
spin-housec1660
saltpetre house1683
spinning-house1803
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 43 We stepp'd in to see the Spin-house of Amsterdam, which is a kind of Bridewell, where incorrigible and Lewd Women are kept in Discipline and Labour.
1704 tr. J. Nieuhof Voy. E.-Indies in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. II. 306 For the Encouraging of Virtue and Suppressing of Debauchery in lewd Women, a Spin-House has been erected here.
1777 J. Howard State Prisons Eng. & Wales 121 The States do not transport criminals: but men are put to labour in the Rasp-houses, and women do proper work in the Spin-Houses.
b. A workhouse.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for the poor, infirm, etc. > workhouse
working-house1597
workhouse1631
house of industry1679
spin-house1702
parish house1709
poorhouse1727
poorshouse1732
house?1825
union workhouse1830
union house1835
pauper asylum1837
great house1838
union1839
big house1851
spiniken1859
spike1866
lump1874
1702 Common-council Bks. Newcastle 12 Oct. in J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle (1789) I. 328 Work-house, alias spinn-house.
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