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Author Re: "hinge house"?
Don

2007-01-30, 5:25 pm


"JSB" <Berson@att.net> wrote in message
news:1170190383.331285.123120@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>A colleague has come across the following in the description of a farm
> in 1607
> (Nottinghamshire):
>
> "Scattered about the hinge-houses and lean-to sheds were wagons."
>
> What's a "hinge-house" ?


Houses that are owned by Mr. Hinge.
You prolly already know who owned the sheds, right?


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