Crossword clues for outhouse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
outhouse \out"house`\, n.
A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.
Especially: A small building with one or more seats and a pit underneath, intended for use as a toilet; a privy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en dated) an outbuilding, a small structure located away, or not directly accessed from, a main building. 2 (label en North America) an outbuilding containing a toilet, often just a seat over a cesspool
WordNet
n. a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate [syn: privy, earth-closet, jakes]
Wikipedia
An outhouse, also known by many other names, is a small structure, separate from a main building, which covers one or more toilets. This is typically either a pit latrine (long drop) or a bucket toilet, but other forms of dry (non-flushing) toilets may be encountered. The term may also be used to denote the toilet itself, not just the superstructure.
Outhouses were in use in cities of developed countries (e.g. Australia) well into the second half of the twentieth century. They are still common in rural areas and also in cities of developing countries. Outhouses that are covering pit latrines in densely populated areas can cause groundwater pollution.
In some localities and varieties of English, particularly outside North America, the term "outhouse" refers not to a toilet, but to outbuildings in a general sense: sheds, barns, workshops, etc.
Outhouse may refer to:
- Outhouse, a small structure containing a simple toilet (North American meaning)
- Any outbuilding near a dwelling e.g. a shed or barn (outside North America)
- The Outhouse (venue), a former music venue outside Lawrence, Kansas, United States
- The OUTHouse, a New Zealand talkshow dealing with lesbian and gay issues
- The Outhouse, a Canadian television series about home improvement
Usage examples of "outhouse".
Well over six feet tall and built like a brick outhouse, he often found it necessary to enter a room sideways, his shoulders being too broad to be accommodated by a standard doorframe.
My spear, my boomerang, my throwing club, you brought them on the camel with us, and they are in the outhouse.
I said, and ran through the kitchen, realizing as I did so that I intended to get my spear and boomerang from the outhouse, where they had hung unused for so long.
Kids were in town from all over the northern counties to compete on these intricately mortised masterpiece alleys, dating back to the high tide of the logging business in these parts, when the big houses framed all in redwood had gone up and legendary carpenters had appeared descending from rain-slick stagecoaches, geniuses with wood who could build you anything from a bowling alley to a Carpenter Gothic outhouse.
Angel of Leaky Outhouses up there, and we got the Angel of Overgrazed Pastures and the Angel of Always Being Broke up there--why, we got so many offbeat, grizzled angels floating around over this little town that sometimes I get claustrophobia from all their wing rustling--from them that has any feathers left in their wings, that is.
Chewed limbs he ran ahunting amongst the wild Outhouses, wantonly skewering hell-beasties with his bow and his sharp arrows, conversing with famous Caesars of Rome and Kings of Africa and other dead folk condemned to the perditious gray lands of Hades, and flexing his biceps for the New Tourists and their new-fangled electronic Nikons and Leicas, their Sony videocams.
Nya grinned and led him away from the picnickers, past a clump of mesquite, towards a weathered outhouse half hidden by thick stalks of wild sorghum.
Still, when something, when anything was wrong hi town, when a pump was frozen or a cow was sick or the outhouse had blown down, the call went out for Joe Mondragon, who would defy ram, hail, blizzards, tornadoes, and earthquakes hi order to skid his pickup with the four bald retreads and no spare to a stop hi your front yard and have the thing or the animal or whatever it was temporarily patched up and functioning again.
Livingstone kicked off, and the outhouse scrum was on the ball in a minute.
The six House lavatories, none with doors, were situated in an unheated outhouse and on a cold day in winter you could get frostbite out there if you stayed too long.
Smoke wreathed his head in the stagnant air inside the backhouse, and the heavy but not altogether unpleasant odor of a clean and well-limed outhouse added to his sense of well-being.
He snaps a couple of roses off a bush and smells them and sticks them, boutonniere fashion, into the outhouse door.
Somebody lit a lamp in the main house, and then Bragg came out shirtless with his pants on and walked to the small outhouse.
Madeleine Horsekeeper, which was a fairly new double-wide mobile home, with an attendant hogan of stacked stones, sheep pens, outhouse, brush arbor and two parked vehicles -an old pickup truck and a new blue Buick Regal.
Everett Hyde--or Hydie as even his wife, Trudy, called him--got his nickname because he always hid behind the outhouse when the teacher, Miss Mosher, rang the bell after recess.