Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dairy.

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  • noun Alternative form of milkhouse.

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Examples

  • Early in the morning, before she had risen, he cleared away the snow that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well, and brought the wood from the out-house, where, to his perpetual astonishment, he found his store always replenished by an invisible hand.

    Chapter 12 2010

  • Early in the morning before she had risen, he cleared away the snow that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well, and brought the wood from the outhouse, where, to his perpetual astonishment, he found his store always replenished by an invisible hand.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • Early in the morning before she had risen, he cleared away the snow that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well, and brought the wood from the outhouse, where, to his perpetual astonishment, he found his store always replenished by an invisible hand.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • Early in the morning before she had risen, he cleared away the snow that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well, and brought the wood from the outhouse, where, to his perpetual astonishment, he found his store always replenished by an invisible hand.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • Early in the morning, before she had risen, he cleared away the snow that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well, and brought the wood from the outhouse, where, to his perpetual astonishment, he found his store always replenished by an invisible hand.

    Frankenstein 2003

  • The milk-house, when there was one, was built over a spring when that was possible, and the milk vessels were kept carefully covered to keep out snakes and other creatures that like milk.

    The Life of Abraham Lincoln Henry Ketcham

  • Down by the spring I met the little mother bringing a tin bucket to the stone milk-house which nature had built.

    Sergeant York And His People

  • He went round on the outside of the orchard hedge, behind the milk-house wall, and stood in the concealment of a little alder planting.

    Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

  • I scrubbed the brick floor in the milk-house; swept the store-room and front yard; gathered the eggs, fed the chickens, and rebuilt the fire for supper.

    The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

  • The smoke-house, milk-house and store-house was three separate buildings in a row.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

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