ˈchange-house Sc.
[f. change n. + house.]
‘A small inn or alehouse’ (Jam.). (Perhaps originally a wayside inn at which horses were or might be changed; in which sense it sometimes remains as a proper name on the old coach-roads.)
| c 1620 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 72 When men see the Ivy bush hang out, They knowe the change-house. 1700 Sir A. Balfour Lett. 52 (Jam.) A little kind of chainge-house..that provides meat for men and horses. 1814 Scott Wav. xi, The guests had left their horses at the small inn, or change-house, as it was called, of the village. 1848 Clough Bothie vi. 78 These..Went by the lochside along to the changehouse near in the clachan. |