Out-house
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Out-house is a noun meaning Archaic form of outhouse.
Meaning
Archaic form of outhouse.
Example Sentences
They then retreated to an out-house, took a wedder from the fold, killed it, and supped off the carcass, for which (it is said) they offered payment to the proprietor.
A Gentleman, of good Account, in Ipſwich, affirms, that in a few Miles riding that Day, there was eleven Barns and Out-houſes blown down in the Road within his View; […]
A neighbor of ours hid six cans of rifle powder in the bake-oven of an old discarded cooking stove which stood on the open ground near a frame out-house or shed, and from and after that day never thought of it again.
To the left was a large pond, on which a fleet of white ducks were sailing; and huge barns and out-houses for receiving tithes in kind, added to the farm-like character which seemed to form a connecting link between the dweller for the time being in the Rectory-house, and his rural parishioners.
Word Forms
- out-houses
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