ˈstill-house
[f. still n.1 + house n.]
A building in which distillation is carried on; a distillery. † See also quot. a 1734 (cf. still-room b).
| 1558 in Feuillerat Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 47 One Stylle-house in the passage leading to the garden. 1617 Moryson Itin. i. 59 This Gentleman had a very faire Library, full of excellent bookes, and a like faire still-house. 1695 Lond. Gaz. No. 3048/4 At Chichester..is a convenient Still-house ready fitted with Stills, Coppers, Hogpenns, Mill and Mill-house,..to be Lett. a 1734 North Lives, Life J. North (1744) 249 [The custom] was for the..Gentlemen Officers to meet every Morning in a Sort of Stil-house, where a good Woman provided them with their Liquors as they liked best; and this they called their Coffee-house. a 1812 J. Barlow Poem on Hasty Pudding (Bartlett) Joys that the vineyard and the still-house bring. 1834 A. Pike Prose Sk. & Poems 24 Our party reached the still house in the valley. 1884 ‘C. E. Craddock’ In Tennessee Mountains ii. 118 Josiah Tait had put his troubles in to soak at the still-house. 1927 Greensboro (N.C.) Daily News 24 Apr. ii. 7/5 One time I was sent fur to bury a feller who had been found dead by a still house over yon side the Roan. 1976 Lancet 18 Dec. 1358/2 Mountaineers' distrust of government for the past half-century has had vastly more to do with the antisocial environmental, economic, and developmental policies of half a dozen Federal agencies..than with overturning mash barrels and knocking down stillhouses. |
| attrib. 1624 in Archæologia XLVIII. 151 In the still house chamber, one standing bedsteed. 1856 Debates Jamaica Assembly I. 87 The Hon. Gentleman himself..would not be eligible for the situation of a Still-house book keeper. |