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/wˈɛrhˌaʊs/ Listen

noun

Warehouse n. (pl. warehouses) A storehouse for wares, or goods.

verb

Warehouse v. t. (past & past part. warehoused; pres. part. warehousing)

To deposit or secure in a warehouse.

To place in the warehouse of the government or customhouse stores, to be kept until duties are paid.

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Etymology of 'Warehouse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Warehouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... warehouse, or workhouse on Sunday is a fifty dollar offense, and it is fifty dollars also for doing "any manner of labor, business or work" on Sunday, unless the judge considers it a matter of necessity or charity; nevertheless, ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887 - Volume 1, Number 6 • Various

... south side of Leadenhall Street. It is a large stone fabric, consisting of three large courts or yards, as has been observed already; part of it is at present a warehouse, in the occupation of the East India Company, where the finest calicoes, and other curiosities of the Eastern part of the world, are reposited; another part of it is for Colchester baize, and is open every Thursday and Friday. Here was also anciently a chapel, and ...

— London in 1731 • Don Manoel Gonzales

... upon revenge, and having dreamed out a feasible plan, proceeded to put it into execution. He had in the warehouse some Government powder, and causing a keg of this to be conveyed into his private office, he knocked out the head. He next penned a note to Halsey, asking him to step down to the office "upon important business;" adding in a postscript, "As I am liable to be called ...

— Cobwebs From an Empty Skull • Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)

... at a secluded wharf, and after waiting about for a couple of hours or so—we had not then learned to wait—we were marched off to a huge dim warehouse, where we were given gallons of the most delicious hot coffee, ...

— Adventures of a Despatch Rider • W. H. L. Watson

... to reach the alley. Old Meg had whipped around the corner so quickly that for a moment he was puzzled as to just where she had disappeared. He stopped with his back half turned to a flight of stairs leading down to the cellar entrance of a big warehouse. Suddenly he was sent stumbling forward to his knees, half dazed by a treacherous blow ...

— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey

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