Workhouse is valid Scrabble Word

Is workhouse a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
19 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for WORKHOUSE in dictionary:

NOUN:

(historical) a place for old people who can no longer support themselves
(in the UK) a public institution in which the destitute of a parish received board and lodging in return for work.
a prison in which petty offenders are expected to work.
(in England, formerly) institution where the poor were given food and lodgings in return for work
A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor
a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

British; poorhouse

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How to use WORKHOUSE in a sentence

In the sight of the multitude he was only an elderly sexton with a cast in his eye, with nothing but his office to keep him out of the workhouse.
Her name was Isopel Berners, and though she believed that she had come of a good stock, she was born in a workhouse.
That afternoon she went to the relieving officer at the workhouse.
II It was an afternoon in early October, the day after Alfred and Lizzie had been removed from the workhouse.
Nicholas Bottom, whom you brought from the Parish workhouse in Stratford, is in ill humor with thee in especial.
But others I have heard in the Workhouse, or to the north of Galway Bay, in Connemara, or on its southern coast, in Burren.
This mistress would occasionally send her slaves, male and female, to the Charleston work-house to be punished.
I was born in the workhouse, and I mind when the Master came in to it.
ANNA Suppose grandfather had got his pension and had left the Workhouse, who would know about the coal? CRILLY The new Workhouse Master.
CRILLY Well? CRILLY The Guardians insisted on appointing an outside person to take stock of the workhouse stores.

The slightest difficulty is sufficient to send an apparently strong, hale man whining to the workhouse.
In the infirmary the real benefit of the workhouse reached him.
How it was that he never sent the little boy to the workhouse you can guess.
You shall go to the workhouse on Blackwells Island for five days.
XI THE WORKHOUSE That next day was as a dream to Rhona.
The workhouse without Stephen Whitelaw must needs be infinitely preferable to Wyncomb Farm with him.
Ireland, now admitted into the Idle Workhouse, is rapidly bursting it in pieces.
A benevolent married couple, in a respectable sphere of life, visited the workhouse to see me.
They decided on the Poplar Workhouse, three miles away, and we started off.
Her husband came from the Islington Workhouse to testify.
If I went into the workhouse I would not take what they wish to give me.
In the beautiful English country dwell old Daddy Darwin and Jack March, the little workhouse boy.
In 1734 a workhouse was erected in the present City Hall Park.
There was no part of Ireland, he said, which might not be made ten times more productive than it was, and yet it was proposed to feed men in idleness in a workhouse.
It took the place in 1853 of a marble one, now in the workhouse chapel.
There had been a great agitation against the workhouse.
To the east was a high defile of hospitals, and to the west the Workhouse tower faintly imprinted itself on the sombre sky.
After passing through a variety of dungeon-like rooms, for the house had once been a workhouse, or something of the kind, I was ushered into the chamber where the patient lay.
It is interesting to know whether Dickens had ever seen a shipwreck or been inside a workhouse.
It is well known that the same names may be seen constantly recurring on workhouse books for generations.
Even now the inmate of a workhouse is often better supplied with food, clothing, and shelter than the poor labourer, who has to pay taxes to support him.
So he took me and my little family to the work-house, to be kept under lock and key at work until he had bought up as many as he wished to take off to the South.

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