pole house

British

noun

a timber house built on a steep section and supported by heavy debarked logs in long piles

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You can, however, without much trouble, build a small pole house without the veranda, and after you have learned how to build the big log houses you can turn back to this page and try a pole house like Fig.

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A pole house is a log house with the logs set upright.

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We call it a pole house because, usually, the logs are smaller than those used for a log house.

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We live in de quarter bout ½ mile from de white folks house in a one room pole house what was daubed wid dirt.

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Oh, my white folks live in a pole house daubed wid dirt too.

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