millhouse

American  

[mil-hous] / ˈmɪlˌhaʊs /

noun

plural

millhouses

1. a building that houses milling machinery, especially of flour.

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Etymology

Origin of millhouse

1250–1300; Middle English milnehous; see mill ¹, house

Example Sentences

The couple has also refurbished a series of free-standing cottages and lofts in the village, along with an impressive millhouse in a neighboring pasture.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2015

Typical are the millhouse and the "steep house," in which grain is placed in large wooden tanks for treatment in a dilute sulphuric acid solution.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bando puts most of the slats in his packbasket and stacks the others in the corner of the millhouse, to collect later.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

After washing the squash in the pond, I build a fire in the stone oven I built not long after the millhouse was completed.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

“August 21 “There are stones everywhere on this mountain, as Dad well knows, and so it seemed sensible to make the millhouse out of stones.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George