Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small storehouse constructed over a spring and used to keep food cool.
Wiktionary
- n. A small building constructed over a spring, formerly used for refrigeration.
Etymologies
- spring + house (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The springhouse was a little lumpy adobe building, so cool on the inside that Augustus would have been tempted to live in it had it not been for its popularity with black widows, yellow jackets and centipedes.”
“Marsali and Bree were bringing down jugs of it from the springhouse, where it had been cooling, along with buttermilk and beer.”
“The sky was still light, but only just, as I came down past the springhouse and into the backyard.”
“We'd put him in the springhouse to keep cool with the butter and eggs, and Bree and Malva had done their best, packing the body with moss to absorb liquids, adding as many strongly aromatic herbs as they could find, then wrapping the unsavory package in a deer's hide, bound with rawhide strips in the Indian fashion.”
“Mrs. Bug was, emerging from the springhouse; I waved to her and she gestured enthusiastically in welcome, though hampered by a pail of milk in one hand, a bucket of eggs in the other, a crock of butter under one arm, and a large chunk of cheese tucked neatly underneath her chin.”
“Below it at the base of the slope which led to the springhouse, and the one most productive field of the farm, were ranged all the dilapidated buildings which more than anything else about the place bespoke the meager material condition to which the family had fallen.”
“After Ada put the milk in the springhouse she returned to the field, where the fire still burned slowly, falling into ash.”
“Outbuildings — smokehouse, can house, springhouse, henhouse, corncrib — bordered a space of packed earth like a courtyard.”
“Ruby cut the heads off three chickens, for the yard was now so full of chicks they could hardly walk to the springhouse without stepping on one, and the population was such that they could anticipate a sufficiency of capons soon.”
“And then from the springhouse a pair of dark-headed boy children emerged.”
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hernesheir My father sometimes uses this term for outhouse. Feb 8, 2013