wool-hole

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