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

Their most astonishing discovery was the charred remnants of a large communal sod house.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021

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

To build a sod house, settlers cut the sod into bricks.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

After taking one last look at the sod house, Papa cracked the whip and they left Missouri for the Oklahoma Territory.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls