neathouse
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See also: neat-house
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English nethouse; equivalent to neat + house.
Noun[edit]
neathouse (plural neathouses)
- (obsolete) A building for the shelter of neat cattle.
- 1632, Philip Massinger, The City Madam:
- The neathouse for musk-melons, and the gardens,
Where we traffic for asparagus, are, to me,
In the other world.
References[edit]
- “neathouse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.