spinning-housen.
1. A room or building set apart for the purpose of spinning.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > place for
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1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 20 Ye dore yt is out of ye parlour into ye spynnyng hous.
1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 20 The drawt chambyr above ye spynnyng hous.
1756 T. Nugent Grand Tour III. 113 The most remarkable thing..is its spinning-house for a manufacture of silk.
1772 Hartford Mercury 18 Sept. A Dressing Shop, a long spinning and Weaving House.
2. (See quots. and cf. spin-house n.)
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > reformatory prison > for women
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saltpetre house1683
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1803 Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 126 Spinning House, an ergastulum; a house of labour and correction; a prison for prostitutes under the jurisdiction of the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors.
1840 Life J. Howard in Chivalry & Charity 150 A spinning house, or Bridewell for women, at Amsterdam.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 304 Spinning-house, the place in Cambridge where street-walkers are locked up, if found out after a certain time at night.
1897 T. D. Atkinson Cambridge 94 In 1790..the Gaol was removed to a new building at the back of the Spinning House.
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