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root-house
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a space wholly or partly underground where vegetables, especially root vegetables, are stored during the winter.
Quotations
1832
When we had completed the house, we raised a barn . . . with an ice-house, root house, and summer dairy beneath it. . . .
1852
. . . and when they were digging for the site of the root-house below the bank, which they had just finished, they had met with charred wood, at the depth of six feet below the soil. . . .
1961
"Bin a real fine summer fer vegetables," he said then. "Too bad yer ma don't have no root house."