Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A framework forming a hollow in a stack of grain for ventilation; the vacancy itself.
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Examples
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When the corn is in a doubtful state, by being too green or wet, the stack-builder, by means of old timber, etc., makes a large apartment in his stack, with an opening in the side which is fairest exposed to the wind: this he calls a fause-house.
Halloween 1909
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[10] When the corn is in a doubtful state, by being too green, or wet, the stack-builder, by means of old timber, etc., makes a large apartment in his stack, with an opening in the side which is fairest exposed to the wind: this he calls a _fause-house_.
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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a ninny have some stories about a wonderful goose, let him out with them, and then waddle away with his fat friend into the stackyard -- where they may take sweet counsel together in the "fause-house."
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
Gammerstang commented on the word fause-house
(noun) - (1) A vacancy in a stack for preserving corns.
--John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1808
(2) A hollow made in a corn-stack, with an opening on the side most exposed to the wind, for the purpose of drying the corn. Scottish form of false and house.
--Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1901
(3) When the corn is in a doubtful state by being too green or wet, the stackbuilder by means of old timber, makes a large apartment in his stack with an opening in the side which is fairest exposed to the wind; this he calls a fause-house.
--Robert Burns' Halloween Note, c.1820
January 16, 2018