Meanings
nounwool-hole (plural wool-holes)
plural wool-holes
- UKobsoleteslangThe workhouse.
Poor Sam's attenuated form, quite lean, and gone to grass, / Through neglecting his work-house, to the wool-hole came at last, […]
1876, Printers' Circular, volume 11, page 34
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