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sinkhouse

sinkhouse noun: synonym of washhouse (“a domestic outbuilding used as a laundry”).

Noun

sinkhouse (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, obsolete, rare) Synonym of washhouse (“a domestic outbuilding used as a laundry”)
    • You've been listening to sinkhouse rumors again. Rumors will worry you into an old man ahead of your time.1986, Elmer Kelton, The Wolf and the Buffalo, page 385
    • In 1672 a grate for seacole in the sinkhouse is included in the inventory of Thomas Osbourne, yeoman.2007, Essex Archaeological Society, Essex Society for Archaeology and History, Essex Archaeology and History, The Transactions of the Essex Society for Archaeological and History, volume 38, page 133
    Synonyms:
    washhouse

Synonyms of sinkhouse

Origin of sinkhouse

From sink + house.

Questions about sinkhouse

What does sinkhouse mean?
Sinkhouse means synonym of washhouse (“a domestic outbuilding used as a laundry”).
What part of speech is sinkhouse?
Sinkhouse is a noun.

Words near sinkhouse in the dictionary

  1. sinkholed
  2. sinkholes
  3. sinkholing
  4. Sinkhorn
  5. Sinkhorn's theorem
  6. sinkhouse
  7. Sinkiang
  8. Sinkie
  9. Sinkie pwn Sinkie
  10. sinkier
  11. Sinkies

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