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limehouse en · NOUN

Etymology

From lime + house.

Meanings

  1. An oast house that uses a limekiln.
    • In a number of parishes tithe was due on mills, and, at Fowey, on limehouses, but only for coppice wood. 1974, Richard Potts, A Calendar of Cornish Glebe Terriers, 1673-1735, page xviii:

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