function / agriculture/subsistence / agricultural field
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function / agriculture/subsistence
- abattoir: A building for the slaughter of cattle.
- aip-house: Beehive. 2. Louvre or lantern in the shape of a beehive.
- anatarium: In ancient Rome, a house (and yard) for raising ducks.
- anserarium: In ancient Rome, a shelter for the raising of geese; consisted of a court surrounded by a high wall, with a portico inside.
- apiary: A house or place where bees are kept; contains a number of beehives.
- aviary: A compartment or whole building set aside for the keeping of birds.
- banal-mill: Also bannal-mill, a corn-mill where feudal tenants were obliged to have their corn ground: they also had to have their bread baked in a banal-oven for the benefit of the landlord.
- barchessa: A covered storage space attached to a farm house; the word is used for the bodies forming the wings of Palladian villas, which usually function as service areas.
- barn: A building for housing cattle or horses, for storage of hay or other crops, or for a combination of such purposes.
- barracoa: A grain house of the northwest coast American Indians. It is built above ground on four posts about 15 feet long.
- bastille house: A bastel house.
- bastle house: See bastel house.
- bee house: See apiary.
- bee-bole: Recess or niche in a garden-wall to house a straw or wooden beehive.
- bird-cage: See aviary.
- bird-house: See aviary.
- bovile: A structure to house cows. Same as bubile.
- box stall: In a stable, a compartment larger than a stall, in which a horse may move about; more specifically, a loose box or box stall.
- brewery: A building or group of buildings arranged for the purposes of carrying on a brewer’s business.
- bubile: A structure to house cows.
- byre: A cow stable or cow shed; the term is used chiefly in Scotland and the north of England.
- camba: The late Latin term for a place where brewing and sometimes baking were done.
- caprile: In ancient Rome, a structure to house goats.
- catabulum: A building or stable in which beasts of burden and carriages were kept for service in ancient times. 2. A shed or common room in which the early Christians officiated.
- chenoboscion: An ancient term for a goose yard; placed near a running stream or a pond, with a good supply of herbage.
- coit: In England, an early type of building combining a cattle stable, barn, and dwelling.
- colonia: Roman farm or farmhouse, also called colonica.
- colonica: A term for an ancient Roman farmhouse.
- coolhouse: A greenhouse which is maintained at a cool temperature above freezing.
- corn crib: In the U.S., a building for the storage of corn, and the like. In its characteristic form, its sides are constructed of slats, set with open spaces between for the circulation of air to dry the corn; and it is raised above the ground on posts with projecting caps of sheet metal to guard against the entrance of vermin. Commonly, the sides slope outward toward the top, as some protection against the weather.
- culver house: A dovecote or pigeon house. The old word for a pigeon, culver, gives this this term and also culver hole, culver tail.
- culver-house: Columbarium in the sense of a dovecote.
- dairy: An apartment or a building for the preservation of milk and its manufacture into other products.
- deercote: Building for sheltering/protecting deer, often given architectural treatment…
- deer-house: As deercote. 2. Accommodation for a gamekeeper…
- deerpen: Building for sheltering/protecting deer, often given architectural treatment…
- deershed: Building for sheltering/protecting deer, often given architectural treatment…
- deershelter: Building for sheltering/protecting deer, often given architectural treatment…
- distillery: A building or buildings, or a part thereof, for distilling liquids of any kind, especially spirits.
- dog-kennel: Buildings for packs of hounds associated with hunting were often large and complex, with yards for exercise, cooking facilities, storage of straw, etc…
- doocot: Scots term for dovecote: it can be of the attached (i.e. incorporated with other outbuildings), beehive, drum, lectern (square on plan with monopitched roof), polygonal, or square (with pitched or pyramidal roof) type.
- dovecot: A round or sometimes many-sided building for the nesting of doves and pigeons. Some famous examples in England have nests of over a thousand birds.
- dovecote: A structure housing tame doves or pigeons for roosting and nesting.
- dovehouse: Circular, polygonal, rectangular, or square building, like a short tower, called colombier or columbarium, the interior of which is fitted with small niches (columbaria) all around the walls for nesting pigeons or doves. If it is a tall building it is called a dove-tower.
- ducat: Scots term for dovecote: it can be of the attached (i.e. incorporated with other outbuildings), beehive, drum, lectern (square on plan with monopitched roof), polygonal, or square (with pitched or pyramidal roof) type.
- estancia: A South American cattle ranch; hence, the buildings of such a ranch.
- farm buildings: Those which are occupied by an agriculturist and his family and assistants, and including all the stables, poultry houses, cart sheds, and the like, which make up the necessary provision for carrying on the work of a farm…
- fernery: Collection of ferns, or the place where ferns are grown, especially rock- and woodland gardens, popular in the Victorian period. 2. Glass-house or conservatory to house ferns brought from warm climes…
- fern-house: Collection of ferns, or the place where ferns are grown, especially rock- and woodland gardens, popular in the Victorian period. 2. Glass-house or conservatory to house ferns brought from warm climes…
- filicetum: Collection of ferns, or the place where ferns are grown, especially rock- and woodland gardens, popular in the Victorian period. 2. Glass-house or conservatory to house ferns brought from warm climes…
- forcing house: A greenhouse especially adapted to an abnormal stimulation of the growth of plants.
- fowl house: A structure furnished with accommodations for the protection and rearing of poultry; a henhouse or chicken house.
- garden house: A summer house in a garden or a garden-like situation.
- gin-case: Farm-building, circular or polygonal on plan, containing a horse-engine to operate the threshing-mill. Also called mill-course, mill-gang, or mill-rink.
- gingang: Farm-building, circular or polygonal on plan, containing a horse-engine to operate the threshing-mill. Also called mill-course, mill-gang, or mill-rink.
- gin-house: Farm-building, circular or polygonal on plan, containing a horse-engine to operate the threshing-mill. Also called mill-course, mill-gang, or mill-rink.
- gin-rink: Farm-building, circular or polygonal on plan, containing a horse-engine to operate the threshing-mill. Also called mill-course, mill-gang, or mill-rink.
- grain elevator: A building with appliances for receiving grain in large quantities from railway cars or other carriers, weighing, storing, and delivering to cars or vessels…
- grain elevators: Machinery for raising the grain to the top of the storage vessels.
- grange: The group of buildings of a farm.
- grapery: A greenhouse especially adapted to the cultivation of grapes, either with or without artificial heat; in the latter case the house is called a cold grapery.
- greenhouse: A shelter, largely of glass and heated artificially, for the more rapid development of plant life.
- henhouse: Same as poultry house.
- herbarium: Systematic collection of preserved dried plants. 2. Building, room, or case containing it. 3. Herb-garden, arbor, or herber.
- hindpost: Same as heelpost, as in the partitions between stalls in a stable.
- homestead: A piece of land, limited to 160 acres, deemed adequate for the support of one family. 2. A group of buildings and the land forming the home of a family; a homestall.
- horreum: An ancient Roman granary, barn, or other building in which agricultural products were stored. 2. A storeroom for bottled wine on the upper floor of a house.
- hothouse: A greenhouse.
- hot-house: Heated greenhouse for plants needing plenty of warmth. See conservatory; glass-house; greenhouse; orangery; temperate house.
- hunting seat: A hunting box of special importance and dignity.
- hunting-lodge: Building providing a viewing-point for the chase, or to accommodate and refresh guests during the hunting-season…
- kennel: A doghouse, whether a wooden boxlike structure 4 or 5 feet long, for a single dog, or an elaborate building carefully planned and arranged for lodging a large pack…
- laiterie: See dairy.
- linhay: An open shed for cattle; local English.
- loose box: An enclosed portion of a stable, larger than a stall of the usual size, to accommodate one or more horses, which are left free to move about within it.
- malt house: A building for the malting of grain and similar preparations for brewers’ work.
- manger: A feed box or trough in a stable.
- menagerie: A building or buildings for the safe keeping and exhibition of wild animals.
- nubilarium: On an ancient Roman farm, a large shed or barn, open on one side, situated close to the threshing floor (which was in the open air), used to store grain until it was threshed and to shelter it from sudden showers or to dry a crop of corn in unfavorable weather.
- oast house: A building in which hops are kiln-dried.
- orangerie: Originally, a greenhouse for orange growing as part of a mansion; more commonly, a conservatory.
- ornithon: In ancient Rome, a house where poultry was kept; an aviary.
- paddock: A fenced enclosure adjoining, or near, a stable.
- palm-house: Conservatory in which palm-trees, etc., are grown and protected.
- pigeon house: Colombier in French. In English, a large building of the sort, a separate tower of considerable size and importance, such as were attached to large farms, manor houses, and strong castles in the Middle Ages…
- pigeon-house: See doocot; dovecot(e).
- pigeonnier: A common feature of the French Colonial plantation house, which often boasted two of these roosting houses, placed symmetrically in front and back of the main residence. A typical pigeonnier was one-and-a-half or two stories high with the setting (nesting) boxes placed over a ground-floor storeroom; fancy versions featured octagonal designs. The birds were raised for both meat and fertilizer.
- pinery: Greenhouse in which pineapples are cultivated. 2. Plantation of pine-trees (see pinetum).
- pitcher house: A wine cellar.
- plantation: In the 19th century, a large, often immense, agricultural operation owned by a single person or family. It concentrated on a particular cash crop, such as cotton or tobacco, typically relying on slave labor. In the Colonial period, plantation was synonymous with farm.
- poultry house: A structure furnished with accommodations for the protection and rearing of poultry; a henhouse or chicken house.
- ranch house: Originally the main dwelling on a stock farm; designating a style of West Coast dwelling of which the above was the prototype.
- ranch: Also see ranche.
- ranche: Also see ranche.
- rancheria: A collection of herdsmen’s huts or an Indian village of temporary nature in the southwestern U.S. and Spanish America; not applied to stone or adobe structures of the Pueblo type, but to clusters of frailer shelters like those of the Gila Pimas. The term “rancho” had a similar application.
- rancho: In the western United States, a tract of grazing land, including also the house upon it; also an ordinary farm not devoted to stock raising. The forms rancho and rancheria have also been used. See ranch.
- rootery: Garden-feature constructed of tree-bark, -roots, and -stumps (so called a stumpery) arranged upside-down with interspersed soil (usually in a shady place), to enable ferns, mosses, and lichens to establish themselves as well as providing a habitat for wildlife…
- root-house: Garden-building constructed or decorated with roots, stumps, branches, and trunks of trees…
- shambles: A slaughter house; by extension, the stalls on or in which butchers expose meat for sale.
- shippen: In local British usage, a stable for cattle. Also see shippon.
- shippon: In local British usage, a stable for cattle. Also see shippen.
- silo: A cylindrical, airtight tower of wood or metal in which green fodder for livestock is preserved and stored.
- slaughter house: A place, building, or group of buildings intended for the slaughter of domestic animals used for food…
- smoke-house: Place where meat, fish, etc. are cured with smoke. 2. Room in a tannery where hides were unhaired.
- spring house: A building erected over a natural spring to protect it from injury or impurities; sometimes decorative, or large enough to contain fixed seats; or used as a place for cooling milk, or the like, in the cold water, as frequently on American farms, where the house is roughly built of wood.
- stable: A structure, or part of one, for the sheltering of horses or cows, etc. 2. Set firmly in place.
- stall post: The post at the foot of the partition between stalls in a stable, used to hold and protect the ends of the partition boarding.
- staunchion: Also see stanchion.
- stumpery: See rootery.
- sty: A pen for hogs; applied only for small shelters of the kind, as on ordinary farms.
- stye: A pen for hogs; applied only for small shelters of the kind, as on ordinary farms.
- takayuka jutaku: A type of Japanese structure with an elevated floor, perhaps used as a grain storage house during the Yayoi period.
- temperate house: Conservatory for plants requiring some heat, but not as much as in a hot-house.
- tide-mill: Mill worked by the flux and reflux of sea-tide acting on a water-wheel.
- tithe barn: Large medieval barn for the storage of the tithe-corn, that quota (a tenth part) of the annual produce of agriculture to support the priesthood.
- tool house: A house where tools are kept, especially farming tools.
- ts’un lo: A Chinese village or group of farmhouses.
- vinery: Same as grapery.
- vivarium: An enclosure for raising animals and keeping them under observation.
- well curb: The enclosure around and above the top of a well.
- wellhouse: Also see wellhouse.
- woodhouse: An outhouse in which firewood may be stored for use.