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ginhouse

ginhouse noun: a building where cotton is ginned.

Noun

ginhouse (plural ginhouses)

  1. A building where cotton is ginned.
    • Up till 1870 or thereabouts, cotton seed was regarded as a positive nuisance upon the American plantation. It was left to accumulate in vast heaps about ginhouses, to the annoyance of the farmer and the injury of his premises.1911, Allan Noble Monkhouse, "Cotton", 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

Forms of ginhouse

pluralginhouses

Origin of ginhouse

From gin + house.

Questions about ginhouse

What does ginhouse mean?
Ginhouse means a building where cotton is ginned.
What part of speech is ginhouse?
Ginhouse is a noun.
What is the plural of ginhouse?
The plural of ginhouse is ginhouses.

Words near ginhouse in the dictionary

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