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morthouse

noun

Etymology

From mort (“death”) + house. Compare mort bell, mort cloth, mort stone.

  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 morthouse — “mort + house”

Definitions

  1. A specialised secure building usually located in a churchyard where bodies were…

    A specialised secure building usually located in a churchyard where bodies were temporarily interred before a formal funeral took place.

    • Morthouses were sturdily built, with iron linings on wooden doors, even a skin of steel within the whole structure in some cases.

The neighborhood

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