ginhouse

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noun

A building where cotton is ginned.

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Meanings

nounginhouse (plural ginhouses)

plural ginhouses

  1. A building where cotton is ginned.

    1911, Allan Noble Monkhouse, "Cotton", 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Up till 1870 or thereabouts, cotton seed was regarded as a positive nuisance upon the American plantation. It was left to accumulate in vast heaps about ginhouses, to the annoyance of the farmer and the injury of his premises.

Origin

From gin + house.

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