sweathouse

[ swet-hous ]

/ ˈswɛtˌhaʊs /

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noun, plural sweat·hous·es

[swet-hou-ziz]. /ˈswɛtˌhaʊ zɪz/.

(especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.

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Also called sweat lodge .

Words nearby sweathouse

sweater, sweatercoat, sweater girl, sweat gland, sweat glands, sweathouse, sweating sickness, sweating system, sweat lodge, sweat off, sweat of one's brow

How to use sweathouse in a sentence

One of these, Tah-nah-kum-chut-te, he says contained a sweathouse having a capacity of 200 people.
The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California|Sherburne Friend Cook
Driver says that this was a "small town" with no sweathouse, and that the people sweated at Unutsawaholma.
The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California|Sherburne Friend Cook
Besides the sweathouse site, seventeen house pits were counted.
California Athabascan Groups|Martin A. Baumhoff
Near the sweathouse I emptied my revolver into the carcasses of three warriors.
The Battle of Atlanta|Grenville M. Dodge

Here there still stand the xonta nikyao, "house big," and the taikuw nakyao, "sweathouse big."
California Athabascan Groups|Martin A. Baumhoff