limehouse

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UK/ˈlʌɪmhaʊs/

noun

An oast house that uses a limekiln.

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Meanings

limehouse1

nounlimehouse (plural limehouses)

plural limehouses

  1. An oast house that uses a limekiln.

    In a number of parishes tithe was due on mills, and, at Fowey, on limehouses, but only for coppice wood.

    1974, Richard Potts, A Calendar of Cornish Glebe Terriers, 1673-1735, page xviii

Limehouse2

proper noun
  1. A district in eastern London, part of the borough of Tower Hamlets (OS grid ref TQ3681).
  2. A community in the town of Halton Hills, Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario, Canada.
  3. An unincorporated community in Jasper County, South Carolina, United States.
verbLimehouse (third-person singular simple present Limehouses, present participle Limehousing, simple past and past participle Limehoused)

present singular third person Limehouses · participle present Limehousing · participle past Limehoused · past Limehoused

  1. UKdatedTo make a fiery political speech.

Origin

limehouse · noun

From lime + house.

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Limehouse · proper noun, verb

The place name is a reference to local lime oasts. The earliest reference is to Les Lymhostes, in 1356. The verb is a reference to a speech made there by the Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George in 1909.

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Cite this entry
APA

limehouse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limehouse

MLA

“limehouse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limehouse. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “limehouse,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/limehouse.

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