outhouse

plural outhouses · alternative archaic out-house

1. CanadaUSAn outbuilding, typically permanent, containing a toilet or seat over a cesspit.
2. datedAny outbuilding: any small structure located apart from a main building.

   There was a considerable outhouse, which he unlocked and we entered.

   1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Disintegration Machine

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   I had first to obtain a recommendation from the Assistant Resident to the Regent, and then an order from the Regent to the Waidono; and when after a week's delay I arrived with my baggage and men at Modjo-agong, I found them all in the midst of a five days' feast, to celebrate the circumcision of the Waidono's younger brother and cousin, and had a small room in an outhouse given me to stay in.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 161

   The children had explored the gardens and the outhouses thoroughly before they were caught and cleaned for tea, and they saw quite well that they were certain to be happy at the White House.

   1902, E. Nesbit, Five Children and It

   […] plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses

   1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

   Dumbledore pointed toward a run-down stone outhouse where the Weasleys kept their broomsticks.

   2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

   Synonyms: outbuilding

present singular third person outhouses · participle present outhousing · participle past outhoused · past outhoused · alternative archaic out-house

1. transitiveTo house in a separate building.

   In our discussion of outhousing we have tried to take into account the inconvenience to users as well as the potential savings in costs.

   1969, Great Britain. National Libraries Committee, Frederick Sydney Dainton, Report of the National Libraries Committee (page 85)

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   The Information Department is outhoused but there are operational reasons for this and it would, in any case, be physically impossible to house the staff of the Department in the main building.

   1975, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Sessional Papers, volume 28, page 38