ginhouse
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Noun edit
ginhouse (plural ginhouses)
- A building where cotton is ginned.
- 1911, Allan Noble Monkhouse, "Cotton", 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- Up till 1870 or thereabouts, cotton seed was regarded as a positive nuisance upon the American plantation. It was left to accumulate in vast heaps about ginhouses, to the annoyance of the farmer and the injury of his premises.
- 1911, Allan Noble Monkhouse, "Cotton", 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
References edit
- “ginhouse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.