picket house

English

Noun

picket house (plural picket houses)

1. 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.