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ˈneat-house
Also neats'.
[f. neat n. Cf. Da. dial. nöds for nödhus.]
1. A house or shed in which cattle are kept.
c1440Promp. Parv. 354/2 Neet howse, boscar. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme iv. iii. 634 The best and purest dung that you can find in your neathouse. 1615J. Manwood Lawes Forest xxiv. 242 Any Swine-house, Neat-house, or Sheepe-house. 1806Bloomfield Wild Flowers 43 Sue round the Neathouse squalling ran. 1825Let it alone, etc. in Houlston Tracts (Brit. Mus.) I. xiv. 5, I must not put off..building a neat-house.
2. A locality near Chelsea Bridge, where there was a celebrated market-garden. Also pl.
1632Massinger City Madam iii. i, The neat-house for musk-melons, and the gardens Where we traffic for asparagus. 1663Clarke Papers (Camden) IV. 305 In a garden by the neats' howse. 1696Lond. Gaz. No. 3162/4 A Messuage and 14 Acres of Garden ground at the Neathouses, Westminster. 1721Bradley Philos. Acc. Wks. Nat. 184 The first, which are Kitchen Gardens,..are those at the Neat-Houses near Tuttle-fields, Westminster. 1761Lond. & Environs V. 24. 1804 Earl of Lauderdale Public Wealth iii. 132 note, The produce of the soil at the Neat-houses before mentioned.
attrib.1727S. Switzer Pract. Gard. Pref. 11 The practice of our Neathouse-men and Gardiners. |