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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A house whose architecture is characterized by several rooms joined in a straight line from the front to the back.
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- noun A
narrow shack with adoor at each end, common in the SouthernUnited States from the end of the Civil War until the 1920s.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the fact that the shot from a shotgun fired through the front door could go out the back door without encountering any intervening obstacles.]
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