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chargehouse

chargehouse noun: a schoolhouse.

Noun

chargehouse (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, nonce-word, obsolete) A schoolhouse.
    • Do you not educate youth at the / charge-house on the top of the mountain?c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 5, scene 1, lines 77–78

Origin of chargehouse

From charge + house.

Questions about chargehouse

What does chargehouse mean?
Chargehouse means a schoolhouse.
What part of speech is chargehouse?
Chargehouse is a noun.

Words near chargehouse in the dictionary

  1. chargees
  2. chargeful
  3. chargehand
  4. chargehands
  5. chargeholder
  6. chargehouse
  7. chargeless
  8. chargelessness
  9. chargeling
  10. chargelings
  11. chargeman

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