saltbox

noun5

1. •
   A box for keeping salt in.
2. •
   (US) A distinctively shaped wooden-frame house with two stories at the front and one behind, characteristic of New England.

   • Rather than build new homes, weekenders are renovating existing homes, with saltboxes and capes predominant. — 2007
3. •
   A roof where one side slopes farther down than the other.
4. •
   A similar box formerly used as a percussion instrument in burlesque music.

   • [O]ne who had heard without seeing the application, would have mistaken the sound for that of a salt-box, in the hand of a dext'rous Merry Andrew, belonging to one of the booths at Bartholomew Fair. — 1751
5. •
   (UK, slang) The cell in Newgate prison for a prisoner condemned to death.

   • “I think I'd rather languish in the Salt Box at Newgate Prison wearing the Devil's Claws than to be married to that tree,” Kierney said. — 2017