Definition of "poor-farm" [poor-farm]

• A farm maintained at public expense for the housing and support of paupers. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Right bravely the Ancient Mariner drove to the Bronx in a taxi, registered his "Charles Stough Greenleaf" in an old-fashioned hand, and took up anew the activities which for years had kept him free of the poor-farm."
• "And so, in the poor-farm, we, who are yet unburied, are OTHER."
• "It was a long, hard way to get out of the poor-farm and finance my miserable little, pitiful little, adventure of the Wide Awake."