Work house
A workhouse — the grim refuge of the destitute — often touches some event that will work you harm and loss. The dream may ask where the spectre of being reduced to bare, institutional subsistence is looming, and whether a coming turn threatens to strip you down toward the hard, dependent circumstance the workhouse has always stood for.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for work house, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream that you are in a workhouse denotes that some event will work you harm and loss.
[244] See Prison.