siegehouse
See also: siege-house and siege house
English
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editEtymology
editFrom siege (“seat, toilet seat”) + house.[1]
Noun
editsiegehouse (plural siegehouses)
- (euphemistic, obsolete) An outbuilding with toilet seats: an outhouse.
- 1519, W. Horman, chapter XIX, in Vulgaria, page 170:
- A segehouse wold be vnder the open aire betwene two wallis.