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pumphouses

pumphouses is the plural of pumphouse.

Meaning of pumphouse

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).

Questions about pumphouses

What is pumphouses the plural of?
Pumphouses is the plural of pumphouse.

Words near pumphouses in the dictionary

  1. pumpgun
  2. pumpguns
  3. pumphead
  4. pumpheads
  5. pumphouse
  6. pumphouses
  7. Pumphrey
  8. Pumphreys
  9. pumpies
  10. pumpin'
  11. pumping

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