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noun
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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Also called soddie, soddy.
Origin of sod house
First recorded in 1825–35
Words nearby sod house
sod disease, soddy, Söderblom, Södertälje, sodger, sod house, sodic, sodio-, sodium, sodium amide, sodium ammonium phosphate
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