Watchhouse

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  • n. A small prison attached to a police station, usually used on a temporary basis.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A house in which a watch or guard is placed.
  • n. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A house in which a watch or guard is placed.
  • n. A house where night-watchmen assemble previous to the hour at which they enter upon their respective beats, and where disturbers of the peace seized by them during the night are lodged and kept in custody till morning, when they are brought before a magistrate; a lockup.
    • Word Usage
    "Let the watchhouse, which is in the vineyard, be ten high, and four broad."
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    lockup   
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