English Explanatory Dictionary

morthouse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A specialised secure building usually located in a churchyard where bodies were temporarily interred before a formal funeral took place.

Word forms

morthouse morthouses mort house mort-house

Etymology

From mort (“death”) + house. Compare mort bell, mort cloth, mort stone.

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