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pit-house

pit-house is the alternative form of pithouse.

Meaning of pithouse

Noun

pithouse (plural pithouses)

  1. A primitive building partially dug into the ground and roofed over.

Forms of pit-house

pluralpit-houses

Questions about pit-house

What is pit-house the alternative form of?
Pit-house is the alternative form of pithouse.

Words near pit-house in the dictionary

  1. pit-adders
  2. pit-boss
  3. pit-bosses
  4. pit-eye
  5. pit-eyes
  6. pit-house
  7. Pit-os
  8. pit-pat
  9. pit-stop
  10. pit-stops
  11. pit-yacker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pit-house (page history and authors); pithouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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