limehouse

See also: Limehouse

English

Etymology

lime +‎ house

Noun

limehouse (plural limehouses)

  1. An oast house that uses a limekiln.
    • 1974, Richard Potts, A Calendar of Cornish Glebe Terriers, 1673-1735, page xviii:
      In a number of parishes tithe was due on mills, and, at Fowey, on limehouses, but only for coppice wood.
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