pumphouse
nounUS /ˈpʌmpˌhaʊs/
Etymology From pump + house.
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:
› A building containing pumping equipment; thus:
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).
- Related terms
- pumping station, springhouse
- Hypernyms
- house