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

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

He also found the site of the sod house in “On the Banks of Plum Creek.”

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 3, 2016

A three-room sod house all white-washed inside, deep windows full of flowers, blooming plants all winter.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 11, 2014

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

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