ginhouse

== English == === Alternative forms === gin-house === Etymology === From gin +‎ house. === Noun === ginhouse (plural ginhouses) A building where cotton is ginned. 1911, Allan Noble Monkhouse, "Cotton", 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Up till 1870 or thereabouts, cotton seed was regarded as a positive nuisance upon the American plantation. It was left to accumulate in vast heaps about ginhouses, to the annoyance of the farmer and the injury of his premises. === References === “ginhouse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.