pound housen.
/ˈpaʊnd haʊs/, U.S. /ˈpaʊnd ˌ(h)aʊs/ Chiefly English regional (south-western).
A building housing an apparatus for pounding or crushing apples; a cider mill. Also occasionally more generally: a building in which anything is crushed or pulverized.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > glass > where specific process is done
pound house1646
the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > cider-making > [noun] > mill or press > house for
cider-mill1688
pound house1796
wring-house1808
1646 in M. Cash Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Cent. (Devon & Cornwall Record Soc.) New Ser. 11 (1966) 81 In the Pownd howse: The Apple pownd or Press.
1702 London Gaz. No. 3821/8 A Round Bottle-Glass-House,..with all Conveniencies, a Pound House and Smith's Forge.
1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 224 The ordinary place of manufacture [of cider], provincially the ‘pound house’,—is generally a mean shed or hovel.
1825 Times 1 Aug. 2/6 The fire burned the pound-house, brew-house, and stable adjoining the great house.
1899 W. Raymond No Soul above Money i. vi. 122 Jacob Handsford stayed out in the pound-house..giving another screw to his apple-cheese.
1987 P. Benson Levels ii. 16 We found old rope in the pound house.
2001 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 21 Apr. 17 With a cider pound house with all its equipment still intact, stabling, loose boxes and a shippen there is a huge range of outbuildings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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