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  1. spunging-house: Wordnik
  2. spunging-house: Wiktionary
  3. spunging-house: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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  1. spunging-house: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (Spunging-house)

noun:  Alternative form of sponging-house [(historical) A place of temporary confinement for debtors, kept by a bailiff, where debtors were sponged of all money they had on themselves, before being transferred to debtor's prison.]

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