sponging house
noun
: a house usually maintained by a bailiff for keeping debtors for a day to afford opportunity to come to terms with their creditors
Word History
Etymology
sponging (gerund of sponge entry 2) + house; from the extortionate charges made there for food and lodging
- pipe of peace
- pipe organ
- pipe plant
- pipe rack
- pipe reamer
- pipe roll
- Pipe Spring National Monument
- pipe still
- pipe stop
- pipe tap
- pipe thimble
- pipe thread
- pipe tomahawk
- pipe tongs
- pipe tree
- pipe turner
- pipe up
- pipe up (with)
- pipe up with
- pipe vine
- pipe vise
- pipe wrench
- pipe-band
- pipe-clayey
- pipe-clayish