storm house

American  

noun

Midland U.S. and Gulf States.

1. a storm cellar.

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Etymology

Origin of storm house

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Example Sentences

Storm′fulness; Storm′-glass, a tube containing a solution of camphor, the amount of the precipitate varying with the weather; Storm′-house, a temporary shelter for men working on a railway, &c.;

From Project Gutenberg

They took by storm house after house, palace after palace; they fought in windows, in doors, in passages.

From Project Gutenberg

And Liberius briefly related how they had forced their way into Tagin� with fearful loss of blood, "for the Goths stood like a wall"--had been obliged to storm house by house, even room by room--"we were obliged to hack to pieces by inches one of their leaders, who ran Anzalas through as he leaped into the first breach, before we could force our way into the town over his body."

From Project Gutenberg

A dour and unsocial Scot was McPherson, as he called himself, but there was wisdom in the selection, for Kennedy, his predecessor, was as genial as Mac was glum, and Kennedy's fall from grace was due mainly to his amiable weakness for the opposite sex, a trait that had led to his lingering far too long in the early spring mornings—and many a "storm house"—along the row, and to concomitant complaint.

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