pump house

Noun

pumphouse (plural pumphouses)

1. A building containing pumping equipment; thus
   • On many farms the early milkhouse and pumphouse were one. Most farmers during the latter part of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries with a herd of milk cows had a milkhouse.1972, Amos Long, The Pennsylvania German family farm
2. A building containing pumping equipment to fill a canal.
3. A building containing pumping equipment to provide the water supply on a farm (from a well, spring, creek, or pond).