noun
- houses built from blocks of sod or turf, especially those constructed by settlers on the American prairie
Usage: historical; American frontier
Examples
- Pioneer families on the Great Plains often lived in soddies during their first years of settlement.
- The museum displayed artifacts from soddies that housed homesteaders in the 1800s.
- Building soddies was a practical solution when timber was scarce on the prairie.
- Many soddies were eventually replaced with wooden frame houses as communities grew.
- The thick sod walls of soddies provided good insulation against harsh winters.
- Archaeologists have discovered the remains of several soddies at the historic settlement site.