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Limehouse

name
/ˈlʌɪmhaʊs/UK

Etymology

The place name is a reference to local lime oasts. The earliest reference is to Les Lymhostes, in 1356. The verb is a reference to a speech made there by the Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George in 1909.

  1. inherited from husen
  2. derived from *(s)kews-✻
  3. inherited from *hūsą✻ — “house”
  4. inherited from *hūs✻
  5. inherited from hūs — “dwelling, shelter, house”
  6. inherited from hous
  7. compounded as limehouse — “lime + house”

Definitions

  1. A district in eastern London, now part of the borough of Tower Hamlets (OS grid ref…

    A district in eastern London, now part of the borough of Tower Hamlets (OS grid ref TQ3681).

  2. To make a fiery political speech.

  3. An oast house that uses a limekiln.

    • In a number of parishes tithe was due on mills, and, at Fowey, on limehouses, but only for coppice wood.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA