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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of oast-house
First recorded in 1755–65
Example Sentences
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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 Rackham, Arthur
A broad, white road; on either hand some half-dozen cottages with roofs of thatch or red tile, backed by trees gnarled and ancient, among which rises the red conical roof of some oast-house.
From The Broad Highway by Farnol, Jeffery
Not for nothing had he watched the men thatching the oast-house by the Medway.
From Harding's luck by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)
It isn’t the same kind as we saw in old Dawson’s oast-house.
From Burr Junior by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
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