oast-house
noun
oast.
oast-houses
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pluralof oast-house.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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 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 Richard Jefferies
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 little gabled, red-roofed house at the foot of some Sussex down, with fruit trees and a high hedge round it, and only the oast-houses peeping over.
From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson
