pumphouse /ˈpʌmpˌhaʊs/ noun3 •A building containing pumping equipment.On many farms the early milkhouse and pumphouse were one. Most farmers during the latter part of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries with a herd of milk cows had a milkhouse. — 1972 •A building containing pumping equipment to fill a canal. •A building containing pumping equipment to provide the water supply on a farm (from a well, spring, creek, or pond). formspumphouses