sweating-housen.
1. A house or building in which persons are sweated, esp. by way of curative treatment; spec. among the North American Indians = sweat-house n. 1.
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sweating-place1591
sweating-house1664
sweat-house1750
sweat-lodge1887
1664 S. Pepys Diary 16 Sept. (1971) V. 272 The general cure for all diseases there [i.e. in Russia] is their sweating-houses.
1791 J. Long Voy. Indian Interpreter 47 When the pipe has gone round, a sweating-house is prepared with six long poles fixed in the ground [etc.].
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 276 Making a rude sweating-house on the banks of the river.
2. In Spain, a hut into which sheep are crowded together so as to sweat, in order to soften the wool for shearing.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > pens used before or after shearing
catching pen1826
sweating-house1832
counting-out pen1874
sweating pen1882
1832 Encycl. Americana XI. 353 A narrow, long, low hut, called the sweating-house, where the sheep, being much crowded, perspire freely.
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