ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Pickethouse

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Pickethouse is a noun meaning Alternative form of picket-house.

Meaning

Alternative form of picket-house.

Example Sentences

His greatest hope was that this was not a full-scale attack, merely a skirmish at the pickethouse, like the one the night before.
In the afternoon they passed through the ruins of an old ranch on that stony mesa where there were crippled fenceposts propped among the rocks that carried remnants of a wire not seen in that country for years. An ancient pickethouse. The wreckage of an old wooden windmill fallen among the rocks.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include picket house, hen-house, pothouse, passage-house, house barn, gig-house.

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