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a1650 G. Boate Irelands Nat. Hist. (1652) xviii. 143 All the Mils, Melting-houses, Refining-houses, and other necessary work-houses, stood within one quarter of a mile..from the place where the Mine was digged.

1700 T. Tryon Lett. upon several Occasions xxxiii. 189 The..Making of Sugar is very heavy and laborious... The sight of the Operation in a Refining-House in London is enough to convince any, that [etc.].

1833 Times 12 June 5/3 The sugar produced in Brazil and Cuba is brought to the refining-house at a cheaper rate than that of our own colonies.

1859 H. W. Halleck tr. Coll. Mining Laws Spain & Mexico 101 There shall be erected at our expense a refining house (casa de Afinacion), with different kinds of furnaces..and such other things as are required for the refining of lead-silver.

1960 Agric. Hist. 34 136/1 In 1768 his works consisted of wind mills, cisterns, a boiling house, a refining house, a rum distillery, and storehouses.

2003 E. Baptist Creating Old South i. 32 He invested in sugar-making apparatus and a sugar-refining house.