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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
Dan and Una, who had been picking after their lessons, marched off to roast potatoes at the oast-house, where old Hobden, with Blue-eyed Bess, his lurcher-dog, lived all the month through, drying the hops.
From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Arthur Rackham
“Well, it’s in the pigeon-cote up agen Dawson’s oast-house, only he won’t have ’em touched.”
From Burr Junior by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
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 Richard Jefferies
It isn’t the same kind as we saw in old Dawson’s oast-house.
From Burr Junior by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
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 E. (Edith) Nesbit
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 Muriel Hine
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 George Newnes
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 William R. (William Richard) Hughes
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 W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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