wool-hole

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English

Noun

wool-hole (plural wool-holes)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) The workhouse.
    • 1876, Printers' Circular, volume 11, page 34:
      Poor Sam's attenuated form, quite lean, and gone to grass, / Through neglecting his work-house, to the wool-hole came at last, []

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary