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Word History and Origins
Origin of oast-house1
Example Sentences
She would, like her authoress, buy a Sussex oast-house, settle down to wait there until Mr. Fry came back to Sussex for keeps.
Another carries off all the scrapwood and takes it away to a safe place in the mill yard where a big, wire-hooded furnace, something like a straight hop oast-house, burns every scrap of it.
Not for nothing had he watched the men thatching the oast-house by the Medway.
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.
‘I’m helping in Mus’ Spray’s oast-house,’ he said to her.
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