pumphouse

English

Alternative forms

• pump house

Etymology

pump +‎ house

Noun

pumphouse (plural pumphouses)

1. A building containing pumping equipment; thus:
2. A building containing pumping equipment to fill a canal.
3. A building containing pumping equipment to provide the water supply on a farm (from a well, spring, creek, or pond).
   • 1972, Amos Long, The Pennsylvania German family farm:

     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.

Hypernyms

• house

Related terms

• pumping station
• springhouse