cobhouse

While she was at work the littlest feller, Johnny, who was building a cobhouse on the floor, yelps up like a terrier:

Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

It is usually made of stone at the base, and that part above the fire is of sticks laid upon one another, cobhouse fashion, and plastered over inside and between with similar clay as that with which the house walls are chinked.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various

She brought coal and cobs from the shed, stopping each trip to get warm, for even to go the twenty steps required to get to the cobhouse was to experience more cold than she had ever encountered in all the days when she had plowed through the snows of

The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

But you have piles and piles of logs over there, "-- she meant the cross-ties, --" couldn't you build a sort of cobhouse ridge with those between your track and Uncle's, and cross behind the car?

A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893

In a twinkling the corded piles of cross-ties had melted to reappear in cobhouse balks bridging an angle from the

A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893

A corn granary is a tower of logs, built like a boy's cobhouse.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

We have just that as "evidence," and out of its meagre materials the biographer builds a cobhouse of conjectures as big as the Coliseum; conjectures which convince him, the prosecuting attorney, but ought to fall far short of convincing any fair-minded jury.

In Defence of Harriet Shelley Mark Twain 1872

"How do you know where our cobhouse is now, Lizzie?

The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger