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Definition of Ginhouses
1. ginhouse [n] - See also: ginhouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ginhouses
Literary usage of Ginhouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture [Dec. 12, 1906-Jan. 19, 1907 by United States Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture (1907)
"In fact, these ginhouses or seed houses frequently serve as centers from which
the infestation radiates. It was evident that if some effective means could ..."
2. Reports of the Industrial Commission by United States Industrial Commission, James Henderson Kyle, Albert Clarke (1901)
"No enumeration of ginhouses of any value has been made for the census. Mr.
Edward Atkinson was asked to undertake it at a late date for the. census of 1880, ..."
3. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1905)
"This doctrine, which has its counterpart in more modern times, was a practical
method of confiscation. Many ginhouses and dwelling houses were burned from ..."
4. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society by Mississippi Historical Society, Franklin Lafayette Riley (1903)
"If the negroes could not be camped out it was better to scatter them in outhouses,
as ginhouses, corn and cotton houses, barns, &c., sleeping at night in ..."
5. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1916)
"Some planters arranged threshers and fans to their ginhouses, and portable
threshers went from plantation to plantation threshing for a part of the grain. ..."
6. Two Wars: an Autobiography of General Samuel G. French ...: Mexican War; War by Samuel Gibbs French (1901)
"When we returned in the autumn, Jim came to see me and explained that he had
never worked in the field; so he worked again at the stables and ginhouses. ..."
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