Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A house for neat cattle; a cow-house.
Examples
“Christopher where it lay on the filthy floor of the neat-house.”
“Sir John Foterell was dead -- slain by "outlawed men;" Sir Christopher Harflete was dead -- did not his body lie in the neat-house yonder?”
“This tall, stout, florid, brawny-armed woman was evidently what French folks call _une maîtresse femme_, a first-rate housewife and manager; a somewhat awe-inspiring person she looked as she stood before us, arms akimbo, her short coarse serge skirt showing shoes well acquainted with stable and neat-house, one dirty blue cotton apron worn over another equally dirty.”
East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘neat-house’.
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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Neat
neaten, beneath, underneath, neatherd, delineate, lineation, neath, neat's-foot oil, cuneate, uneaten, enneatic, neatnik and 20 more...
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