DCHP-1 Online
skookum-house Pacific Coast and Northwest 
n. jail; prison.
See also: skookum box
- c1870 (1873) . . . it was only after much waw-waw (parley) and sundry threats of the skookkum-house (gaol) . . . that one of them was got to undertake to carry him.
- 1907 Turning to Tom I said, "I might have had you put in the 'skookum house' " (as they call the jail), "but I want you to do better. . . . "
- 1965 In 1872, Frederick Brent was appointed Justice of the Peace and a skookum-house (jail) was built on his land.
- c1870 (1873) . . . it was only after much waw-waw (parley) and sundry threats of the skookkum-house (gaol) . . . that one of them was got to undertake to carry him.