out-house

plural out-houses

1. archaicArchaic form of outhouse.

   They then retreated to an out-house, took a wedder from the fold, killed it, and supped off the carcass, for which (it is said) they offered payment to the proprietor.

   1829, [Walter Scott], “Introduction”, in Rob Roy (Waverley Novels; VII), Edinburgh: […] Cadell & Company; London: Simpkin & Marshall, page xiv

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   A Gentleman, of good Account, in Ipſwich, affirms, that in a few Miles riding that Day, there was eleven Barns and Out-houſes blown down in the Road within his View; […]

   1704, [Daniel Defoe], The Storm: or, A Collection of the Most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters Which Happen’d in the Late Dreadful Tempest, Both by Sea and Land, London: […] G. Sawbridge […], and Sold by J. Nutt […], page 54

   To the left was a large pond, on which a fleet of white ducks were sailing; and huge barns and out-houses for receiving tithes in kind, added to the farm-like character which seemed to form a connecting link between the dweller for the time being in the Rectory-house, and his rural parishioners.

   1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XV, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 314–315

   A neighbor of ours hid six cans of rifle powder in the bake-oven of an old discarded cooking stove which stood on the open ground near a frame out-house or shed, and from and after that day never thought of it again.

   1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXIX, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 275