pitcher-housen.
/ˈpɪtʃəhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈpɪtʃərˌ(h)aʊs/ Now historical.
A room for the storage of wine and ale.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > wine-cellar or store
wine cellar1371
pitcher-house1386
cellara1393
vintrya1456
wine-vault1791
wine-cave1845
lodge1880
wine lodge1880
1386 Close Roll, 10 Richard II 2 Nov. (P.R.O.: C 54/227) m. 30 Inter magnam coquinam nostram & domum vocatam la Picherhous.
1454 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1837) VI. 227 (MED) The celer..The botery..The picherhous..Thoffice of þe spicery.
1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 540/1 This Acte..be not prejudiciall unto our welbeloved Servaunt William Langley, Grome of the Picher house of oure Howshold.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiiij Ewery, Pantrie, Seller, Buttery, Spicery, pitcher house.
1601 F. Tate tr. King Edward II's Househ. & Wardrobe Ordinances (1876) 29 Two valletes de mestier of the picher-house, who shal serve the hal of wine and ale.
1684 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia: 1st Pt. (ed. 15) i. 155 Sergeant of the Cellar, who is also Sergeant of the Buttery, and Pitcher-house.
1826 H. Smith Tor Hill I. 236 Deem you that knights' esquires pass their life in the pantry and pitcher-house?
1910 E. Law Shakespeare as Groom of Chamber 8 Grooms and yeomen of the Bakehouse, Buttery, Pitcher-house, Chaundry, Ewry [etc.].
1962 P. M. Kendall Yorkist Age ii. v. 183 The clerks of the Countinghouse received a daily ‘brevement’ or accounting from the multiplicity of offices which fed or provisioned the household—the bakehouse, the pantry, the..pitcher-house, [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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