scalding-housen.
a. A room in which utensils or the carcasses of animals are scalded.
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1421 Cov. Leet Bk. 32 Allso-sone as the skaldyng-house..be full fynyshid and redy that they skald þer swyne in the same house.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 920/1 In the scalding house, a yeoman and two groomes.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) iii. 39 And my three Court Codlings that looke parboyld, As if they came from Cupids scalding house.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iv. xii. 499/2 The Skalding house.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 56 The milk-house, the scalding and pressing house, and the salting-house.
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1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 7th Serm. sig. Eei Euen in the skaldynge house, in the vgsomnes of the place.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 7th Serm. sig. Eevi You are lyke to go [to] ye Scalding house, and ther you shal haue two dishes, wepynge and gnashinge of teth.
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