English

Noun

sickhouse ‎(plural sickhouses)

1. A place where sick or injured people are cared for; a hospital.
   • 1830, Frederic William Naylor Bayley, Four years' residence in the West Indies:

     The sickhouse was a cool, capacious, and convenient building, well adapted to the purpose for which it was used.

   • 1993, Robert Jordan, The shadow rising:

     What was still called the new sickhouse, where people were taken to be tended if their illness was contagious, [...]

   • 2002, Sharla M. Fett, Working cures:

     Four months after giving birth to a daughter, Peggy returned to the sickhouse with a "rising breast," [...]

Synonyms

• infirmary