oast house

1. 1.

   a building containing an oast (a kiln for drying hops); usually has a conical or pyramidal roof

   Broaderhouse

   Partsoast

Questions about oast house

What does oast house mean?

oast house means "a building containing an oast (a kiln for drying hops); usually has a conical or pyramidal roof".

Is oast house a common word?

oast house is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.