picket house
English
Noun
picket house (plural picket houses)
- Alternative form of picket-house
- 2012, Ann Lacy, Anne Valley-Fox, Stories from Hispano New Mexico, page 105:
- The others from the church across the street from Baca poured volley after volley into the door and window of the picket house where Baca was hiding.
- 2013, Wilbur Sturtevant Nye, Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill:
- East of the sewer outlet was “Soapsuds Row,” which was a collection of huts, old tents, picket houses, and dugouts.
- 2014, Terri M. Baker, Connie Oliver Henshaw, Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives:
- My husband and his brother, Charles, made a dugout for us to live in and built a picket house of one room a short distance away.