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Watchhouse   Listen
noun
Watchhouse  n.  (pl. watchhouses)  
1.
A house in which a watch or guard is placed.
2.
A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.





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"Watchhouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... robs a man in a public-house, in broad daylight. He is pursued by a constable and taken. On the way to the watchhouse a mob collects, the police are attacked, pistols are pointed, bludgeons and axe-handles are brought out of the adjacent houses (all still in broad daylight, and in a busy street), and distributed amongst the crowd, loud cries inciting attack are heard, a ...
— A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53. • Mrs. Charles (Ellen) Clacey


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