Bridewell

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  • n. A small prison, or a police station that has cells.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A house of correction for the confinement of vagrants and disorderly persons.
    • Word Usage
    "Here a gang of older boys and men were wont to congregate at such times as they had naught else to occupy their time, and as the bridewell was the only place in which they ever held a job for more than a day or two, they had considerable time to devote to congregating."
     
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