† house-row Obs.
(ˈhaʊsrəʊ)
A row or series of houses. by (in) house-row: according to the order or succession of houses, house by house.
| c 1586 in Rel. Ant. I. 255 The parishe by howserowe to fynde every sundaye in the yeare j. penye white lofe for holye bread. 1676 N. Riding Rec. VI. 264 That due watch and ward be kept by persons fit and of able body by house⁓row. a 1791 Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 320 Take a regular catalogue of your societies, as they live in house-row. [1896 T. Blashill Sutton-in-Holderness 186 For more important objects, collections were sometimes made by ‘house-row’.] |