oast-house

[ ohst-hous ]

noun

, Chiefly British.

, plural oast-hous·es [ohst, -hou-ziz].

1. oast.
2. a building housing several oasts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of oast-house¹

First recorded in 1755–65

Example Sentences

She would, like her authoress, buy a Sussex oast-house, settle down to wait there until Mr. Fry came back to Sussex for keeps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the lady showed us the Danejohn, and it was like an oast-house.

From Project Gutenberg

Another carries off all the scrapwood and takes it away to a safe place in the mill yard where a big, wire-hooded furnace, something like a straight hop oast-house, burns every scrap of it.

From Project Gutenberg

Not for nothing had he watched the men thatching the oast-house by the Medway.

From Project Gutenberg

Dan and Una, who had been picking after their lessons, marched off to roast potatoes at the oast-house, where old Hobden, with Blue-eyed Bess, his lurcher-dog, lived all the month through, drying the hops.

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