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hoghouse

hoghouse noun: a house (barn or shed) for hogs (pigs).

Noun

hoghouse (plural hoghouses)

  1. A house (barn or shed) for hogs (pigs).
    • There should be appended to the hoghouse an open yard for straw, litter, weeds, &c., which the hogs, during summer, will work into manure, and into which the dung is thrown from the pen. Hogs are subject to various diseases, particularly if shut up in a close pen during the time of fattening, which...1844, Jesse Buel, The Farmers' Instructor. Consisting of Essays, Practical Directions, and Hints for the Management of the Farm and the Garden. Originally Published in the Cultivator; Selected and...
    • It is a long recognized fact that a greenhouse roof admits the maximum amount of sunshine, but it is only recently that the sunlit hoghouse has been actually put into use. It has been conceded by leading stockmen that the best hoghouse is the one admitting the most sunlight, but it remained for the...1916 September, “Getting sunlight into the hoghouse”, in American Co-operative Journal, volume 12, number 1, page 60

Examples of hoghouse in a sentence

  • There should be appended to the hoghouse an open yard for straw, litter, weeds, &c., which the hogs, during summer, will work into manure, and into which the dung is thrown from the pen.1844, Jesse Buel, The Farmers' Instructor. Consisting of Essays, Practical Directions, and Hints for the Management of the Farm and the...
  • It is a long recognized fact that a greenhouse roof admits the maximum amount of sunshine, but it is only recently that the sunlit hoghouse has been actually put into use.1916 September, “Getting sunlight into the hoghouse”, in American Co-operative Journal, volume 12, number 1, page 60:
  • There is no building on the farm that needs ventilation any more than the type of hoghouse that is being built today.1920 April, “Hoghouse ventilation”, in Extension Circulars, number 31: Farm Building Ventilation, South Dakota State College of...
  • After first trying to save as many animals as he could, he then discontinued raising them in the hoghouse and instead turned his chickens loose in that building.1975, Elmer Schwieder, Dorothy Schwieder, A Peculiar People: Iowa's Old Order Amish, Iowa State University Press, →ISBN, page 39:

Forms of hoghouse

pluralhoghouses
alternative formhog house

Origin of hoghouse

From hog + house.

Questions about hoghouse

What does hoghouse mean?
Hoghouse means a house (barn or shed) for hogs (pigs).
How do you use hoghouse in a sentence?
There should be appended to the hoghouse an open yard for straw, litter, weeds, &c., which the hogs, during summer, will work into manure, and into which the dung is thrown from the pen.
What part of speech is hoghouse?
Hoghouse is a noun.
What is the plural of hoghouse?
The plural of hoghouse is hoghouses.

Words near hoghouse in the dictionary

  1. hoghide
  2. hoghides
  3. Hoghilag
  4. Hoghiz
  5. hoghood
  6. hoghouse
  7. hoghouses
  8. hoghs
  9. Hoghton
  10. Hoghtons
  11. hogjaw

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