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