[f. STILL sb.1 + HOUSE sb.] A building in which distillation is carried on; a distillery † See also quot. a. 1734 (cf. STILL-ROOM b).
1558. in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), 47. One Styllehouse in the passage leading to the garden.
1617. Moryson, Itin., I. 59. This Gentleman had a very faire Library, full of excellent bookes, and a like faire still-house.
1695. Lond. Gaz., No. 3048/4. At Chichester … is a convenient Still-house ready fitted with Stills, Coppers, Hogpenns, Mill and Mill-house,… to be Lett.
a. 1734. North, Lives, Life J. North (1744), 249. [The custom] was for the … Gentlemen Officers to meet every Morning in a Sort of Stil-house, where a good Woman provided them with their Liquors as they liked best; and this they called their Coffee-house.
a. 1812. J. Barlow, Poem on Hasty Pudding (Bartlett). Joys that the vineyard and the still-house bring.
attrib. 1624. in Archæologia, XLVIII. 151. In the still house chamber, one standing bedsteed.
1856. Debates Jamaica Assembly, I. 87. The Hon. Gentleman himself … would not be eligible for the situation of a Still-house book keeper.
