Springhouse

Quick meaning: Springhouse is a noun meaning (Appalachia) A small building constructed over a spring, formerly used for refrigeration (and thus sometimes also serving as pumphouse, milkhouse, or root cellar).

Meaning

(Appalachia) A small building constructed over a spring, formerly used for refrigeration (and thus sometimes also serving as pumphouse, milkhouse, or root cellar).

Example Sentences

When it was all over Mr. Sam came out to the spring-house to say good-by to me before he and Mrs. Sam left.

At first light, around the time that the body of the kagan – a body that had already begun to manifest decidedly uncorpselike signs of movement – was being carried by an ill-assorted trio into a springhouse near a little-used gate of the Palace through which corpses and those who tended to them traditionally passed, the watch posted atop Qizl caught sight of a scattering of black seeds against the flickering gray of the southern horizon.

Word Forms

• springhouses
• spring house

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pumphouse, poolhouse, wellhouse, seedhouse, milkhouse, schoolhouse.

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