OUTHOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outhouse mean? 

• OUTHOUSE (noun)
  The noun OUTHOUSE has 1 sense:

1. a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate

  Familiarity information: OUTHOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTHOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

earth-closet; jakes; outhouse; privy

Hypernyms ("outhouse" is a kind of...):

outbuilding (a building that is subordinate to and separate from a main building)

 Context examples 

“In the outhouse you will find a considerable quantity of straw,” said Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the very first day that I was at the Copper Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands near the kitchen door.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“They are in the outhouse, those dreadful things,” said she as Lestrade entered.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is accessible from the top of an outhouse.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We stopped under the lee of the lobster-outhouse to exchange an innocent kiss, and went in to breakfast glowing with health and pleasure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Early in the morning, before she had risen, he cleared away the snow that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well, and brought the wood from the outhouse, where, to his perpetual astonishment, he found his store always replenished by an invisible hand.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The outhouse was the simplest of dwellings, wooden-walled, shingle-roofed, one window beside the door and one on the farther side.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you wish to see them you must go to the outhouse.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were many things to be brought up from the beach and stored in the outhouse—as oars, nets, sails, cordage, spars, lobster-pots, bags of ballast, and the like; and though there was abundance of assistance rendered, there being not a pair of working hands on all that shore but would have laboured hard for Mr. Peggotty, and been well paid in being asked to do it, yet she persisted, all day long, in toiling under weights that she was quite unequal to, and fagging to and fro on all sorts of unnecessary errands.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)