ˈstorehouse
[f. store n. + house n.]
1. A building in which goods are stored.
| 1348 MS. Acc. Exch. K.R. 470/18 m. 9 Pro vna serura noua empta pro hostio del storhus vj. d. 1463 Bury Wills (Camden) 22 She to haue the storehous therto to leye in hire stuffe. 1526 Tindale Luke xii. 24 Which nether have stoore housse ner barne. 1605 Shakes. Macb. ii. iv. 34 Where is Duncans body? Macd. Carried to Colmekill, The Sacred Store-house of his Predecessors, And Guardian of their Bones. 1664 Pepys Diary 12 July, And fine storehouses there are and good docks. 1748 Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 307 One of these huts..the Indians made use of for a store⁓house. 1857 Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art i. §9 Laying up your wheat wisely in store-houses for the time of famine. 1890 Rlwys. Amer. 300 The supplies are..delivered at the General Storehouse. |
b. attrib. and Comb.
| 1497 Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 240 The vtter Storhouse Dore in the seid Ship. 1540 Palsgr. Acolastus ii. iv. M iv b, Now that I am become the storer or storehouse keper of this puissant lorde. 1548 in Feuillerat Revels Edw. VI (1914) 40, ijo croked boltes ffor the store howse dore. 1809 in Orders in Council Nav. Service (1866) I. 257 Clerk and Storehouse Keeper. 1816 Ibid. 260 One Storehouse Labourer. 1833 Ibid. 190 The first and second classes of storehouse labourers, who are men charged with an important trust of great responsibility. 1886 Ibid. (1888) V. 125 We would recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased to sanction the appointment of a Storehouseman (Civil rating) to that Ship..and to be assisted by a Yeoman of Storerooms. |
2. transf. and fig. Often, a store or treasury from which something may be obtained in plenty; an abundant source (of).
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man v. 72 The liuer, the shoppe or storehouse of bloud. 1589 Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 68 Arcadie, storehouse of Nimphs, and nurserie of beautie. 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 6 She..greatly ioyed merry tales to faine, Of which a store-house did with her remaine. 1671 Milton P.R. ii. 103 My heart hath been a store-house long of things And sayings laid up, portending strange events. 1690 Locke Hum. Und. ii. x. §2 Memory, which is as it were the Store-house of our Ideas. 1846 Wright Ess. Mid. Ages I. v. 203 The history..published by Geoffrey of Monmouth opened a rich storehouse of fiction for the poets who followed. 1856 Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. ii. 59 The brain..is the store-house of past sensations. 1881 Westcott & Hort Grk. Test. Introd. §5 Books that are professedly storehouses of information. |