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ˈroot-house
[f. root n.1]
1. An ornamental building made principally of tree-roots, esp. in a garden.
1765R. Dodsley Leasowes in Shenstone's Wks. (1777) II. 289 Winding forward down the valley, you pass beside a small root-house, where on a tablet are these lines. Ibid. II. 294 Here, entering a gate, you are led through a thicket of many sorts of willows, into a large root-house, inscribed to..the Earl of Stamford. 1802E. Parsons Myst. Visit II. 243 Behind it was a root house, where the fire⁓wood was kept. 1832Miss Mitford Village Ser. v. (1863) 440 They..had adjourned to the root-house, a pretty rustic building at the end of the garden.
2. A house or barn for storing roots.
1790Pennsylvanian Packet 30 Mar. 4/2 On the premises are..two arched stone root-houses. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 60 Root-Houses. Where a number of cows..are fed on winter roots and vegetables,..it is highly necessary to have houses of this sort. 1847W. C. L. Martin Ox 115/1 Where hay is scarce, carrots form a very economical substitute; they must be kept in dry root-houses or in trenches. 1961W. O. Mitchell Jake & Kid 28 ‘Bin a real fine summer fer vegetables,’ he said then. ‘Too bad yer ma don't have no root house.’ 1970Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 22 Nov. 13/2 Into the root house went the potatoes, carrots and other root vegetables. |