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sod house

–noun
a house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used esp. by settlers on the Great Plains, when timber was scarce.
Also called soddie, soddy.


Origin:
1825–35
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sod house

noun
a house built of sod or adobe laid in horizontal courses 
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