springhouse

noun

1. (Appalachia)A small building constructed over a spring, formerly used for refrigeration (and thus sometimes also serving as pumphouse, milkhouse, or root cellar).

   “When it was all over Mr. Sam came out to the spring-house to say good-by to me before he and Mrs. Sam left.”

   “At first light, around the time that the body of the kagan – a body that had already begun to manifest decidedly uncorpselike signs of movement – was being carried by an ill-assorted trio into a springhouse near a little-used gate of the Palace through which corpses and those who tended to them traditionally passed, the watch posted atop Qizl caught sight of a scattering of black seeds against the flickering gray of the southern horizon.”