Meaning of sinkhouse | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of washhouse (“a domestic outbuilding used as a laundry”)

no-plural, obsolete, rare

Examples

“You've been listening to sinkhouse rumors again. Rumors will worry you into an old man ahead of your time.”

“In 1672 a grate for seacole in the sinkhouse is included in the inventory of Thomas Osbourne, yeoman.”

“In 1714, James Girle, son and heir of Henry, who had married the daughter who had been given 'the kitchen the sinkhouse the milkhouse and the two chambers upstairs out of the sinkhouse and one bay of the Barne against the Porch' as well as her share of the garden and yards”

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