limehouse

See also: Limehouse

English

Etymology

From lime +‎ house.

Noun

limehouse (plural limehouses)

1. An oast house that uses a limekiln.
   • 1974, Richard Potts, A Calendar of Cornish Glebe Terriers, 1673-1735, page xviii:

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