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Definition of Gashouse
1. a gasworks [n -S] - See also: gasworks
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gashouse
Literary usage of Gashouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"Tbe explosion was caused by the gas from the naphtha coming into contact with
the flre of the gashouse retorts as the naphtha flowed near by in the sewer, ..."
2. American Fuels by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1922)
"This plant briquetted anthracite screenings, using as a binder pitch made from
gashouse tar. Owing to the crude construction of the machinery, ..."
3. Notes on Assaying and Assay Schemes by Pierre de Peyster Ricketts (1876)
"Fire-Brick of all shapes and sizes, gashouse and Greenhouse Tiles, gashouse and
Sugarhouse Clay Retorts, Assay Furnaces, Muffles, Bakers' Oven Tiles, ..."
4. Memoirs of a Great Detective: Incidents in the Life of John Wilson Murray by John Wilson Murray (1905)
"I walked fully three miles, past the gashouse, which was locked, before I came
to a tavern. Profiting by my former experience I knocked, and when I heard a ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"Tbe explosion was caused by the gas from the naphtha coming into contact with
the flre of the gashouse retorts as the naphtha flowed near by in the sewer, ..."
6. American Fuels by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1922)
"This plant briquetted anthracite screenings, using as a binder pitch made from
gashouse tar. Owing to the crude construction of the machinery, ..."
7. Notes on Assaying and Assay Schemes by Pierre de Peyster Ricketts (1876)
"Fire-Brick of all shapes and sizes, gashouse and Greenhouse Tiles, gashouse and
Sugarhouse Clay Retorts, Assay Furnaces, Muffles, Bakers' Oven Tiles, ..."
8. Memoirs of a Great Detective: Incidents in the Life of John Wilson Murray by John Wilson Murray (1905)
"I walked fully three miles, past the gashouse, which was locked, before I came
to a tavern. Profiting by my former experience I knocked, and when I heard a ..."
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