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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a rude dwelling having walls of sods and a roof either of sods supported by wooden rafters or, sometimes, canvas.
See: sod shack
Quotations
1953
Of course, his wife wouldn't want him to stay in a sod house with litter and mice in the bed.
2
a rude dwelling consisting of an excavation, often in the bank of a coulee, etc., roofed with sods.
See: soddy(def. 1)
Quotations
1965
Sometimes the sod house was, in fact, an excavation in a coulee bank.