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oast-house

[ ohst-hous ]

noun

, Chiefly British.
, plural oast-hous·es [ohst, -hou-ziz].
  1. a building housing several oasts.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of oast-house1

First recorded in 1755–65

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Example Sentences

The road which we were using ran at right angles into a better-class way by the side of an old oast-house.

As we drew up at the fatal corner, the others came out of the oast-house to see what was making the noise.

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

As he closed the shutter, the oast-house seemed dark before the day's end, and he lit the candle in the lanthorn.

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

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