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Bridewell, a house of correction in Blackfriars, London, so called from St. Bridget's well, near it.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bridewell in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable