Synonyms:
farmhouse
Meaning: house for a farmer and family
Usage examples
Many a man we left to sicken and die at some farmhouse by the roadside.
He was on his way to the farmhouse where Betsey lived with her Aunt Hannah.
I've been measuring by that farmhouse across the river for a long time, and she hasn't crawled up to it yet!
Besides, I want to send over there," she pointed to a farmhouse not a great distance from the river, "and get some milk and eggs."
Every evening he used to come and see her, and stop to supper at the farmhouse, and the daughter used to be sent down into the cellar to draw the beer for supper.
If I asked for five hundred pounds to add to the farmhouse, I would get it at once, for I am a good tenant; but my landlord demurred at such an expenditure for cot-houses. I think I will carry my point, however."
The old thing sitting there so white and shrunken had once been a merry, noisy child, playing about in lanes and hay-lofts and farmhouse garrets; that had been eighty odd years ago, and now she was just a frail old body cowering under the approaching chill of the death that was coming at last to take her.
It was difficult for anyone, let alone a stranger like Emma, to get her to talk of the days that had been; her shrill, quavering speech was of doors that had been left unfastened, pails that had got mislaid, calves whose feeding-time was overdue, and the various little faults and lapses that chequer a farmhouse routine.