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Origin of oast-house
First recorded in 1755–65
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She would, like her authoress, buy a Sussex oast-house, settle down to wait there until Mr. Fry came back to Sussex for keeps.
From Time Magazine Archive
Calling-off time depended on the state of the oast-house.
From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
There is an air redolent of ripening fruit, and hops, for Dapplemere is a place of orchards, and hop-gardens, and rick-yards, while, here and there, the sharp-pointed, red-tiled roof of some oast-house pierces the green.
From The Money Moon A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery
“Well, it’s in the pigeon-cote up agen Dawson’s oast-house, only he won’t have ’em touched.”
From Burr Junior by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
Here there is always a deep coombe, or the top of a wood underneath, or a rising slope, or a distant ridge crowned with red-tiled farmstead, red-coned oast-house, and tall spruce firs.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard
Between the streams trickling down he began to catch green vistas of hops with their quaint, peaked oast-houses like the caps worn by hob-goblins from the pages of a fairy book.
From The Man with the Double Heart by Hine, Muriel
A hop-garden was one of the sights connected with Philip's boyhood and the oast-houses to him the most typical feature of the Kentish scene.
From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Then, on the other side of the moat there is the farm, with barns and oast-houses and stables, or things like that.
From The Wouldbegoods by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
Then the green hops are carted off in "pokes" or sacks to the "oast-houses" to be dried.
From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by Hughes, William R. (William Richard)
The Orlestone sketch represents a type of vane practically never to be met with, save on the oast-houses in the hop-growing districts of Kent.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George
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