lock hospital
English
Noun
lock hospital (plural lock hospitals)
- (Britain, obsolete) A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lock hospital in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)