oast-houses
- plural of oast-house.
Example Sentences
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The farmers have been drying their damp wheat in the oast-houses over charcoal fires, and wages are lowered, and men discharged.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard
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)
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
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
