Definition of saltbox
: a frame dwelling with two stories in front and one behind and a roof with a long rear slope
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Consisting of two saltbox houses and four outbuildings overlooking the rest of Salvage, its harbor, and the rugged coastline that surrounds it, the Pickersgill Premises is an official Registered Property of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Although the three cottages look like 18th-century saltboxes, while renovating them Romualdez found newspapers from the 1930s used as insulation, as well as a photograph from that time showing the three structures attached to the windmill.
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Although the three cottages look like 18th-century saltboxes, while renovating them Romualdez found newspapers from the 1930s used as insulation, as well as a photograph from that time showing the three structures attached to the windmill.
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Although the three cottages look like 18th-century saltboxes, while renovating them Romualdez found newspapers from the 1930s used as insulation, as well as a photograph from that time showing the three structures attached to the windmill.
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His saltbox there is also awash in neutrals, with furniture in a different mix of periods, from Swedish antiques to midcentury modern.
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One sports a gambrel roof, another a saltbox shape, a third the shape of a whimsical birdhouse.
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The background of Ohio's settlers affected very different aspect of their lives, from speaking to styles of housing - New England saltboxes v. saddlebag houses.
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The shingle-style house was built in 1753 with a saltbox design – long, pitched roof that slopes to the back – before its conversion to a full, two-story home in the 1790s, according to local historians.
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1876
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Definition of saltbox for English Language Learners
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: a house that has two or more levels in the front, one level in the back, and a steep roof that slopes down from the front to the back
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