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eard-house — yirdˈ house, eardˈ house, etc noun An earth house (see under ↑earth) • • • Main Entry: ↑yird … Useful english dictionary
-gry — The Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than angry and hungry, that ends with the letters gry. Aside from words derived from angry and hungry, there is no stand alone word ending in gry that is in current… … Wikipedia
Dugout (shelter) — Dugout home near Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940. A dugout or dug out, also known as a pithouse, pit house, earth lodge, mud hut, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground. These… … Wikipedia
Chichester Psalms — This article is about Leonard Bernstein s composition. For Peter Martins ballet to this music, see Chichester Psalms (ballet). Score of page 1, Movement I of Chichester Psalms, Boosey Hawkes edition. Note the changes of time signature. The… … Wikipedia
EARTH HOUSES — known also as Yird Houses, Weems and Picts Houses, underground dwellings in use in Scotland, extant even after the Roman evacuation of Britain. Entrance was effected by a passage not much wider than a fox burrow, which sloped downwards 10 or… … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
