card-house

card-house (countable and uncountable, plural card-houses)

1. Alternative form of cardhouse
   • 1820, William Brodie Gurney, The Trials of Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, John Thomas Brunt, Richard Tidd, William Davidson, and others, For High Treason:

     Unimportant as this confirmation is to the proof of a design and intention to depose the King, let us see whether in any part Adams's evidence "is supported, and I think you will find it falls to the ground like the card-house of a baby, directly the finger of a human being is applied to it — there is not a thing that can stand on this testimony, and there is this, curious circumstance attending it, which would alone destroy that which is much better combined that this with is, that no two of the witnesses ever saw one another.

   • 1974, Minerals Science and Engineering - Volume 6, page 8:

     ...thus the assumption has sometimes been made that the corresponding dried extruded test pieces contain very porous microstrutures resembling card-house or relaced flocs.

   • 1980, San Diego Magazine - Volume 33, page 208:

     First down to Rose's and then to the card-house, Shot in the breast and I'm dying today.

   • 2013, A.S. Mujumdar, R.A. Mashelkar, Advances in Transport Processes, page 103:

     Consequently, any assemblage of kaolinite (or similar) particles will exhibit what has been referred to as a "card-house" structure.

   • 2018, Praveen Kumar, Shobha Priya, page 85:

     The words I frame to hold your charm Collapse like card-house by sheer weight;