What does out-house mean?
Out-house means Archaic form of outhouse..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Archaic form of outhouse..
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; […]
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.
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.
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.
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Out-house means Archaic form of outhouse..
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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; […]
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