still-house

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A common term in the United States for a distillery.


Despise it not, ye Bards to terror steel'd,

Who hurl'd your thunders round the epic field;

Nor ye who strain your midnight throats to sing

Joys that the vineyard and the still-house bring.--Joel Barlow, Poem on Hasty Pudding.

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