Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house of correction: probably in allusion to the treadmill.
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The top is first cut from the cane, and then the stalks cut as close to the ground as possible, thrown into carts, or taken on the backs of mules to the grinding-house.
Biography of an American bondman : by his daughter, Josephine Brown 1856
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