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  1. Borstals: Merriam-Webster
  2. borstals: Collins English Dictionary
  3. borstals: Vocabulary.com
  4. borstals: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. borstals: Wiktionary
  6. Borstals: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. borstals: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Borstal)

noun:  (UK) A way up a hill in the South Downs.
noun:  (historical) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.
noun:  (British, Ireland) Any institution which provides education to young offenders.
noun:  A suburb, formerly a village, in Rochester, Medway borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7366).
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