neathouse

noun

neathouse

noun

Etymology From Middle English nethouse; equivalent to neat + house.

1

Obsolete A building for the shelter of neat cattle.

The neathouse for musk-melons, and the gardens, Where we traffic for asparagus, are, to me, In the other world.1632, Philip Massinger, The City Madam:

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