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1. www.dictionary.com › browse › sweathouseSWEATHOUSE Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

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   Sweathouse definition: (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.. See examples of SWEATHOUSE used in a sentence.

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   What is a sweat house?

   • Sweat-houses. The sweat-house or sudatory is a diminutive form of the ordinary hogan or hut as described in par. 20, except that it has no smoke-hole (for fire is never kindled in it), neither has it a storm-door. It is sometimes sunk partly underground and is always thickly covered with earth.

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   What does sweathouse mean?

   • Need even more definitions? Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free! The meaning of SWEATHOUSE is a hut, lodge, or cavern heated by steam from water poured on hot stones and used especially by American Indians for ritual or therapeutic sweating.

   Sweathouse Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   How were sweat houses built?

   • Sweat houses were usually built by digging up an area near the bank of a stream. They had low ceilings and a small door. The men had to crawl into the sweat house. Only men got to use the sweat house. They were used for cleanliness, before hunts, and religious ceremonies.

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3. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › sweathouseSweathouse Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   The meaning of SWEATHOUSE is a hut, lodge, or cavern heated by steam from water poured on hot stones and used especially by American Indians for ritual or therapeutic sweating.

4. www.urbandictionary.com › defineUrban Dictionary: sweat house

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   Dec 7, 2011 · The delicious act of a woman's fart while driving on a road trip, sleeping in the backseat of a car. After a diet of Mcdonalds for breakfast lunch and dinner...Smell being vulgar enough to wake the dead. Causing the driver to lose conscienceless and spin of the road killing the all the passengers.

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   sweathouse (plural sweathouses) sweat lodge. Categories: English compound terms. English lemmas.

6. www.oed.com › dictionary › sweat-house_nsweat-house noun - Oxford English Dictionary

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   What does the noun sweat-house mean? There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun sweat-house . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

7. www.wordsense.eu › sweathousesweathouse: meaning, definition - WordSense

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   WordSense Dictionary: sweathouse - meaning, definition, origin.

8. www.newworldencyclopedia.org › entry › Sweat_lodgeSweat lodge - New World Encyclopedia

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   The sweat lodge (also called purification ceremony, sweat house, medicine lodge, medicine house, or simply sweat) is a ceremonial sauna and is considered an important tradition in some Native American cultures. Sweats are often done for purification, both physical and spiritual.