dey-housen.
/ˈdeɪhaʊs/ Now local.
A dairy or dairy-house.
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dairyc1290
dey-house1342
dairy-house1530
milkhouse1554
milkness1691
milk room1698
butter dairy1784
cheesery1836
creamery1872
1342–74 in J. Raine Hist. Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres (1839) App. cxli Item unam stabulam et unum deyhus de Petynton.
a1547 Surv. Tykford Priory in Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum (1846) V. 206 On the northside the gate is a howse called the dayhowse.
1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Casearia taberna..A dayhouse where cheese is made.
1578 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 101 Item belongyng to ye deahouse xij brasse pannes vij skelletes two ladles and a scomer.
1825 J. Britton Beauties Wiltshire (1879) Deyhouse, Da'us, Dayus, a dairy, or room in which the cheese is made.
1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Dey-hus.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Dey-house (pronounced dey'us), the dairy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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n.1342- to the leftward of
- to the letter
- to the life
- to the limit
- to the lips
- to the longest day one lives
- to the loudest
- to the manner born
- to the manor born
- to the marrow
- to the masthead
- to the matter
- to the max
- to the memory of
- to the mends
- to the mite
- to the moment
- to the nail
- to the nay-ward
- to the nayward
- to the nearest
- to the neck
- to the nines
- to the nines rarely nine
- to the nonce