pumphouse

plural pumphouses · alternative pump house

1. A building containing pumping equipment; thus

   On many farms the early milkhouse and pumphouse were one. Most farmers during the latter part of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries with a herd of milk cows had a milkhouse.

   1972, Amos Long, The Pennsylvania German family farm

2. A building containing pumping equipment; thus:
   1. A building containing pumping equipment to fill a canal.
   2. A building containing pumping equipment to provide the water supply on a farm (from a well, spring, creek, or pond).