plural of doss-house

The furnace in which tin ores are calcined, to sublime the sulfur and arsenic from the pyrites.

plural of auction house

plural of meeting house

plural of guest house

(historical) A low lodging house into which men were decoyed and plied with alcoholic drink to induce them to ship or enlist as sailors or soldiers.

(slang, dated) An audience composed of people who have come in on free passes.

(UK, historical) A place, usually a public house, where journeymen connected with a particular trade assembled when out of work, ready for the call of employers.

Troglodytes aedon, a very small songbird of the wren family.

(Canada) Any of a large number of modest, wooden frame houses, typically of Cape-Cod design, built in municipalities across Canada during the 1940s under the federal government's Wartime Housing Limited program.