pumphouse
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pumphouse (plural pumphouses)
- A building containing pumping equipment; thus:
- A building containing pumping equipment to fill a canal.
- A building containing pumping equipment to provide the water supply on a farm (from a well, spring, creek, or pond).
 - 1972, Amos Long, The Pennsylvania German family farm:- On many farms the early milkhouse and pumphouse were one. Most farmers during the latter part of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries with a herd of milk cows had a milkhouse.
 
 
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