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

His father had grown up in a homestead sod house on the Kansas plains.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2016

His mother had gone west in a covered wagon and grown up in a sod house.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2016

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

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

When teachers brought us to the sod house in Oklahoma and told us it was ninety-eight years old, I asked why they’d made a museum out of it.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri