sinkhouse

English

Etymology

From sink +‎ house.

Noun

sinkhouse (plural not attested)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of washhouse (“a domestic outbuilding used as a laundry”)
    • 1986, Elmer Kelton, The Wolf and the Buffalo, page 385:
      You've been listening to sinkhouse rumors again. Rumors will worry you into an old man ahead of your time.
    • 2007, Essex Archaeological Society, Essex Society for Archaeology and History, Essex Archaeology and History, The Transactions of the Essex Society for Archaeological and History‎[1], volume 38, page 133:
      In 1672 a grate for seacole in the sinkhouse is included in the inventory of Thomas Osbourne, yeoman.
    • 2016, Sara Pennell, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850, page 129:
      In 1714, James Girle, son and heir of Henry, who had married the daughter who had been given 'the kitchen the sinkhouse the milkhouse and the two chambers upstairs out of the sinkhouse and one bay of the Barne against the Porch' as well as her share of the garden and yards
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