borstal vs workhouse

borstal

noun
  • Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983. 

  • Any institution which provides education to young offenders. 

  • A way up a hill in the South Downs. 

workhouse

noun
  • A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour. 

  • An institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work. 

verb
  • To place (a person) in the workhouse (institution for the poor). 

How often have the words borstal and workhouse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )