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root-house 
n. a space wholly or partly underground where vegetables, especially root vegetables, are stored during the winter.
- 1832 (1953) When we had completed the house, we raised a barn . . . with an ice-house, root house, and summer dairy beneath it. . . .
- 1852 (1881) . . . and when they were digging for the site of the root-house below the bank, which they had just finished, they had met with charred wood, at the depth of six feet below the soil. . . .
- 1961 "Bin a real fine summer fer vegetables," he said then. "Too bad yer ma don't have no root house."
- 1832 (1953) When we had completed the house, we raised a barn . . . with an ice-house, root house, and summer dairy beneath it. . . .