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laithe-house

laithe-house is the alternative form of laithe house.

Meaning of laithe house

Noun

laithe house (plural laithe houses)

  1. A dwelling with other farm buildings, including a barn, as a single structural unit, with separate entrances for human and livestock areas.
    • The vernacular tradition in building was not completely dead, however, and in the West Riding of Yorkshire economic and social factors peculiar to the hills and dales of the eastern Pennines produced a new house-type, the laithe house.1990, Michael A. Reed, The Landscape of Britain: From the Beginnings to 1914, →ISBN, page 313

Forms of laithe-house

plurallaithe-houses

Questions about laithe-house

What is laithe-house the alternative form of?
Laithe-house is the alternative form of laithe house.

Words near laithe-house in the dictionary

  1. laith
  2. Laithangbam
  3. laithe
  4. laithe house
  5. laithe houses
  6. laithe-house
  7. laithe-houses
  8. laithes
  9. laiths
  10. Laithwaite
  11. laities

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