Wool-hole

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The workhouse. UK, obsolete, slang

    "Poor Sam's attenuated form, quite lean, and gone to grass, / Through neglecting his work-house, to the wool-hole came at last, […]"

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"Poor Sam's attenuated form, quite lean, and gone to grass, / Through neglecting his work-house, to the wool-hole came at last, […]"

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