pothouse
Britishnoun
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"Sealed in blood!" croaks Long John Silver to his sidekick, Jim Hawkins, as they skulk in the corner of a dingy pothouse and plot their return to Treasure Island.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Last week, Erwin B. Hock, New Jersey Beverage Control Commissioner, ruled that Radigan was licensed to run a corner pothouse, not a nursery.
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We returned to the Festubert pothouse in the evening.
From The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by Lord Edward Gleichen
The son of the Prussian, the Prussian, as the pothouse wits of Remilly had styled him!
From The Downfall by E. P. Robins
And lectures give to great and small, In pothouse, theatre, and town-hall, Wearing your brains by night and day To win the means to pay your way?
From Queen Berngerd, The Bard and the Dreams and other ballads by George Henry Borrow
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