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OUTHOUSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate
Synonyms:
earth-closet; jakes; outhouse; privy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("outhouse" is a kind of...):
outbuilding (a building that is subordinate to and separate from a main building)
Context examples:
Nearer the road, and surrounded on three sides by bushes, was a small outhouse, one window and the door facing in our direction.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On my imparting this discovery in confidence to Peggotty, she informed me that her brother dealt in lobsters, crabs, and crawfish; and I afterwards found that a heap of these creatures, in a state of wonderful conglomeration with one another, and never leaving off pinching whatever they laid hold of, were usually to be found in a little wooden outhouse where the pots and kettles were kept.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He had built himself a wooden outhouse—he always called it the ‘cabin’—a few hundred yards from his house, and it was here that he slept every night.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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