Meaning of springhouse | Babel Free

Definitions

A small building constructed over a spring, formerly used for refrigeration (and thus sometimes also serving as pumphouse, milkhouse, or root cellar).

Appalachia

Examples

“The very suggestion of a springhouse calls up recollections of quaint, low eaved "homey" farmhouses; the simple life of old-time country homes, and the solidity and picturesque simplicity of ancestral estates. The charm of this home accessory, that was once considered a necessity from an economic standpoint—when it stood for more convenient handling and better prices for the milk and butter of the farm—has come⟳ to be an important factor in the home building of to-day. […] The useful springhouse of the farm dairy is adorned with flowering vines and converted into the most decorative feature of the homestead; and even country churches delight in this additional attraction to their church property, where the country members quench their thirst after their long "ride⟳ to meeting."”

“When it was all over Mr. Sam came out to the spring-house to say⟳ good-by to me before he and Mrs. Sam left.”

“At first light⟳, around the time that the body of the kagan – a body that had already begun to manifest decidedly uncorpselike signs of movement – was being carried by an ill-assorted trio into a springhouse near a little-used gate of the Palace through which corpses and those who tended to them traditionally passed, the watch⟳ posted atop Qizl caught sight of a scattering of black seeds against the flickering gray of the southern horizon.”

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