brewhouse
(ˈbruːhaʊs)
Also 4 brewhous, 5 brywhouse, brewhows(e, bruhows, 6 brewehouse.
[f. vb.-stem bru- brew- + house. Cf. OHG. brû-hûs.]
A house or building in which beer is brewed; a brewery.
| 1373 Test. Ebor. I. 89 Item legavit Roberto de brewhous v marcas. c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 3334 In al the toun nas Brewhous ne Tauerne That he ne visited. 1458 Test. Ebor. II. 226 The pantre, botre, kechyn, bakhows, and brewhouse. 1483 Cath. Angl. 45 A Bruhows, pandoxatorium. 1529 Act 21 Hen. VIII, xiii. §32 No Spiritual Person..shall have, use, or keep any Manner of Brew-house. 1671 F. Philipps Reg. Necess. 362 A better house than the Brew⁓house which he could not thrive in at Huntington. 1677 A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 163 You must have a Bake-house and Brew-house of your own. 1797 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 47/1 Mr. Meux's brewhouse in Liquorpond Street. 1837 Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) I. x. 176 That shall tear down the distilleries and brewhouses. |