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ˈstorehouse
[f. store n. + house n.]
1. A building in which goods are stored.
1348MS. Acc. Exch. K.R. 470/18 m. 9 Pro vna serura noua empta pro hostio del storhus vj. d. 1463Bury Wills (Camden) 22 She to haue the storehous therto to leye in hire stuffe. 1526Tindale Luke xii. 24 Which nether have stoore housse ner barne. 1605Shakes. Macb. ii. iv. 34 Where is Duncans body? Macd. Carried to Colmekill, The Sacred Store-house of his Predecessors, And Guardian of their Bones. 1664Pepys Diary 12 July, And fine storehouses there are and good docks. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 307 One of these huts..the Indians made use of for a store⁓house. 1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art i. §9 Laying up your wheat wisely in store-houses for the time of famine. 1890Rlwys. Amer. 300 The supplies are..delivered at the General Storehouse.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 240 The vtter Storhouse Dore in the seid Ship. 1540Palsgr. Acolastus ii. iv. M iv b, Now that I am become the storer or storehouse keper of this puissant lorde. 1548in Feuillerat Revels Edw. VI (1914) 40, ijo croked boltes ffor the store howse dore. 1809in Orders in Council Nav. Service (1866) I. 257 Clerk and Storehouse Keeper. 1816Ibid. 260 One Storehouse Labourer. 1833Ibid. 190 The first and second classes of storehouse labourers, who are men charged with an important trust of great responsibility. 1886Ibid. (1888) V. 125 We would recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased to sanction the appointment of a Storehouseman (Civil rating) to that Ship..and to be assisted by a Yeoman of Storerooms.
2. transf. and fig. Often, a store or treasury from which something may be obtained in plenty; an abundant source (of).
1578Banister Hist. Man v. 72 The liuer, the shoppe or storehouse of bloud. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 68 Arcadie, storehouse of Nimphs, and nurserie of beautie. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 6 She..greatly ioyed merry tales to faine, Of which a store-house did with her remaine. 1671Milton P.R. ii. 103 My heart hath been a store-house long of things And sayings laid up, portending strange events. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. x. §2 Memory, which is as it were the Store-house of our Ideas. 1846Wright Ess. Mid. Ages I. v. 203 The history..published by Geoffrey of Monmouth opened a rich storehouse of fiction for the poets who followed. 1856Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. ii. 59 The brain..is the store-house of past sensations. 1881Westcott & Hort Grk. Test. Introd. §5 Books that are professedly storehouses of information. |