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Definition of Backhouse
1. n. A building behind the main building.
Definition of Backhouse
1. Noun. A smaller building behind a main building; often a privy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backhouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backhouse
Literary usage of Backhouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A List of the Lancashire Wills Proved Within the Archdeaconry of Richmond by Henry Fishwick (1884)
"1630 backhouse, Richard, of Yealand Conyers, K ... Admon 1667 backhouse, Robert,
... 1669 backhouse, Thomas, of Preston, parish of Burton, ..."
2. Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement, Or, Norfolk's Foundation Builders by Egbert Americus Owen (1898)
"THE backhouse family of Norfolk are the descendants of one of the oldest and most
... A history of the backhouse family has been published in England, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1884)
"backhouse v. Patton. interest in the subject, or that it was identical with one
afterwards brought by A., in his own name, for the same property. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1837)
"... consent in Court would be sufficient without altering the form of the pleadings.
READ v. backhouse. sense. testator, Thomas backhouse, made his will, ..."
5. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: With Notes and by Great Britain Court of Chancery (1842)
"The testator's son, Thomas Joseph backhouse, died without children. Thomas backhouse
and Jacob backhouse contended that the codicil ..."
6. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1900)
"His son was Sir William backhouse of Swallowfield, Bart., high sheriff in ...
I went towards Swallowfield to serve at the Funeral of Sir William backhouse. ..."
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