limehouse/ˈlʌɪmhaʊs/EtymologyThe place name is a reference to local lime oasts. The earliest reference is to Les Lymhostes, in 1356. The verb is a reference to a speech made there by the Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George in 1909.nameA district in eastern London, now part of the borough of Tower Hamlets (OS grid ref TQ3681).nounAn oast house that uses a limekiln.“In a number of parishes tithe was due on mills, and, at Fowey, on limehouses, but only for coppice wood.”verbTo make a fiery political speech.