Definition of "keep house" []

• To take care of domestic chores; work as a housekeeper. (verb)

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• "When Margaret attained the age of twenty-one, Abraham Simmons made a present to his son Joe of a tract of land on the Octorara, and asked Margaret if she would keep house for him."
• "The drones are the lowly males, who keep house and stand about gossiping and occasionally wait upon the queen."
• "Feniton was a thorough home, and already Coley's vision was, 'When I am vicar of Feniton, which I look forward to, but with a very distant hope, I should of all things like Fanny to keep house for me till I am married;' and again, when relating some joke with his cousins about the law-papers, of the Squire of Feniton, he adds: 'But the Squire of Feniton will be a clergyman.'"