weem
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun An earth-house; an artificial cave or subterranean building.
Examples
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Steenie seemed always to experience a strange sort of terror while waiting for anyone to come out of the weem, into which he never entered; and it was his repugnance to the place that chiefly moved him to build a house of his own.
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It is an outcome of the aboriginal necessity for shelter, this instinct of burrowing: Welbeck Abbey is the development of a _weem_ or _Picts' house_.
Note
The word 'weem' comes from an early Gaelic word meaning 'cavern'.
