sod house

American  

noun

1. a house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used especially by settlers on the Great Plains, when timber was scarce.

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Etymology

Origin of sod house

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

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sod house

Smith and his partners plan to shore up the old sod house, and they’d like to start using the barn to host community events.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2020

An architect would have described the sod house on the bank of Plum Creek as extremely primitive, unhealthy and undesirable—nothing to seal the walls from dampness, no ventilation, no light.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2016

On some weekends I feel like a character in “My Ántonia,” buried in a sod house and peeping timidly at the hostile landscape outside.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2016

Cutting sod bricks was hard work, and building a sod house could take many weeks.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

She would build snowhouses in winter, a sod house in summer.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George