pickethouse

English

Noun

pickethouse (plural pickethouses)

1. Alternative form of picket-house
   • 1988, Cynthia Van Hazinga, These United Colonies, page 338:

     His greatest hope was that this was not a full-scale attack, merely a skirmish at the pickethouse, like the one the night before.

   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 24:

     In the afternoon they passed through the ruins of an old ranch on that stony mesa where there were crippled fenceposts propped among the rocks that carried remnants of a wire not seen in that country for years. An ancient pickethouse. The wreckage of an old wooden windmill fallen among the rocks.