Definition of "washing-house" [washing-house]

• A wash-house. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The roots being dug up with the hoe, are transported to the washing-house, where they are thoroughly freed from all adhering earth, and next taken individually into the hand and deprived, by a knife, of every portion of their skins, while every unsound part is cut away."
• "We each have a bunk to ourselves, with a proper mattress, pillow, and blankets: a table and seat at one end, lots of racks and hooks, and a lovely little washing-house leading out of the bunk, shared by the two Sisters on each side of it: each has a door into it."
• "And that is what she is singing just now in the garden; and Mairi she is bringing the things out of the washing-house."