laithe-house
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The laithe-house consists of house, barn and byre in that order, the barn and byre combined being known in the Halifax area as 'laithe' according to C.F. Stell, hence the term."
- "J. T. Smith has argued that the laithe-house is probably alien to the longhouse tradition, and surviving longhouses in northern England are confined to the north-west."
- "Common in the north and west of Yorkshire, laithe-houses are farmsteads in which the combined byre and barn (the laithe) was constructed as an elongated extension of the dwelling, with which it shares the same roof."