In the German immigrant culture of the Texas Hill Country, one of the houses erected by farming settlers for overnight stays while visiting town for supplies and church attendance.

Alternative form of guesthouse

a company that runs auctions. / a building in which auctions are conducted.

Alternative form of meetinghouse

A haunted house attraction, typically run by a religious group, depicting the torments of the damned in hell.

(UK, historical) A bailiff's or other house in which debtors are put before being taken to jail, or until they compromise with their creditors. At these houses extortionate charges were commonly made for food, lodging, etc.

plural of sponging house

(obsolete) A brothel whose rooms have secret entrances to facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates.

plural of panel house

plural of doss-house