Usually means: Temporary jail for debtors historically.
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  1. sponging-house: Wordnik
  2. sponging-house: Wiktionary
  3. Sponging-house: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. Sponging-house: World Wide Words

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (sponging-house)

noun:  (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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