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noun

outhouse n.

A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.

Especially: A small building with one or more seats and a pit underneath, intended for use as a toilet; a privy.

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Etymology of 'Outhouse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Outhouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... house near the church I saw a roof that might have been a roof for a town. It covered the living part and the stables, and the outhouse and the brewhouse, and the barns, and for all I know the pig-pens and the pigeons' as well. It was a benediction of a roof—a roof traditional, a roof patriarchal, a roof customary, a roof of permanence ...

— Hills and the Sea • H. Belloc

... this inn there still remain two large scythe blades affixed to the wall of an outhouse. The history of these is that they were formerly on the front of the inn, facing the street, because was annually held, on August 21st, what was called the Scythe Fair, when the county blacksmiths gathered to purchase scythes, ...

— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter

... he exchanged turbans and scimitars, and then left him and went home. Shortly after Acota had quitted the wood, the mutes returned, lifted the miserable Mezrimbi on their shoulders and carried him to the house of the chief Brahmin, who having ordered him to be guarded in an outhouse, said his ...

— The Pacha of Many Tales • Captain Frederick Marryat

... apprehensive it may even drop its burden and begin a search for insects with the air of one who had never even dreamed of building a nest. Even when unsuspicious it will not always go directly to the nest. From an outhouse I once watched a Blue Jay, with a twig, change its perch more than thirty times before going to the fork where its nest was ...

— The Bird Study Book • Thomas Gilbert Pearson

... found no dog in the outhouse, and, worse, no sheep in the enclosure. A sprung board showed the way of escape of the one, and a displaced hurdle that of the other. And as he was making the discovery, a gray dog and a flock of sheep, ...

— Bob, Son of Battle • Alfred Ollivant

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