DCHP-1 Online

sod house West

• 1 a rude dwelling having walls of sods and a roof either of sods supported by wooden rafters or, sometimes, canvas.

  See also: sod shack  

  • 1953  Of course, his wife wouldn't want him to stay in a sod house with litter and mice in the bed.

• 2 a rude dwelling consisting of an excavation, often in the bank of a coulee, etc., roofed with sods.

  See also: soddy (def. 1)  

  • 1965  Sometimes the sod house was, in fact, an excavation in a coulee bank.