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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A room or small house built round a well, for dairy and other domestic uses.

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Examples

  • Every castle ward has a multifarious life of its own, that goes on without fuss, in well-house, bakery, armoury, store and workshops, in two parallel disciplines, one military, one domestic.

    A River So Long 2010

  • While out in the grounds passing time, Bode hears a woman's voice echoing out of the well-house.

    Comic Break: Locke & Key #2 Paul 2008

  • While out in the grounds passing time, Bode hears a woman's voice echoing out of the well-house.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Paul 2008

  • On entering well-house, Bode discovers that she is in the well.

    Comic Break: Locke & Key #2 Paul 2008

  • On entering well-house, Bode discovers that she is in the well.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Paul 2008

  • Every castle ward has a multifarious life of its own, that goes on without fuss, in well-house, bakery, armoury, store and workshops, in two parallel disciplines, one military, one domestic.

    Brother Cadfael's Penance Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1994

  • As for the well, 'twas now known to the most stupid, even to men, that it was but an empty hole in the ground, covered by the well-house to hide the dryness thereof, and no deeper than Kaelt-tay, the Seagull, scratches in the sand for nesting.

    In the Time That Was James Frederic Thorne

  • A connection is made to a pump in a well-house 25 feet distant, and is also arranged to operate a churn and washing machine.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 Various

  • On one hand near it, under the hugest of the trees was a cool, white, well-house of stone, like a little tower.

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

  • By the door of the well-house sat he by day, in front of the well-house door was his bed by night.

    In the Time That Was James Frederic Thorne

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