ginhouseEtymologyFrom gin + house.nounA building where cotton is ginned.“1911, Allan Noble Monkhouse, "Cotton", 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica Up till 1870 or thereabouts, cotton seed was regarded as a positive nuisance upon the American plantation. It was left to accumulate in vast heaps about ginhouses, to the annoyance of the farmer and the injury of his premises.”