pickethouse
English edit
Noun edit
pickethouse (plural pickethouses)
- Alternative form of picket-house
- 1988, Cynthia Van Hazinga, These United Colonies, page 338:
- His greatest hope was that this was not a full-scale attack, merely a skirmish at the pickethouse, like the one the night before.
- 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 24:
- In the afternoon they passed through the ruins of an old ranch on that stony mesa where there were crippled fenceposts propped among the rocks that carried remnants of a wire not seen in that country for years. An ancient pickethouse. The wreckage of an old wooden windmill fallen among the rocks.