still-housen.
A building in which distillation is carried on; a distillery. †See also quot. 1744 (cf. still-room n. b).
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still-house1558
stillatory?1600
foundry1670
distil-house1682
distillery1759
stillery1762
still1845
outstill1884
1558 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 47 One Stylle-house in the passage leading to the garden.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 59 This Gentleman had a very faire Library, full of excellent bookes, and a like faire still-house.
1695 London Gaz. No. 3048/4 At Chichester..is a convenient Still-house ready fitted with Stills, Coppers, Hogpenns, Mill and Mill-house,..to be Lett.
1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 249 [The custom] was for the..Gentlemen Officers to meet every Morning in a Sort of Stil-house, where a good Woman provided them with their Liquors as they liked best; and this they called their Coffee-house.
1796 J. Barlow Hasty-pudding i, in N.Y. Mag. Jan. 42 Joys that the vineyard and the still-house bring.
1834 A. Pike Prose Sketches & Poems 24 Our party reached the still house in the valley.
1884 ‘C. E. Craddock’ In Tennessee Mts. ii. 118 Josiah Tait had put his troubles in to soak at the still-house.
1927 Greensboro (N. Carolina) Daily News 24 Apr. ii. 7/5 One time I was sent fur to bury a feller who had been found dead by a still house over yon side the Roan.
1976 Lancet 18 Dec. 1358/2 Mountaineers' distrust of government for the past half-century has had vastly more to do with the antisocial environmental, economic, and developmental policies of half a dozen Federal agencies..than with overturning mash barrels and knocking down stillhouses.
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