different between backhouse vs packhouse

English

From back +? house.

backhouse (plural backhouses)

(now dialect) An outbuilding behind the main building.
- 1557, Edinburgh Burgh Records, Vol. III, p. 17:
  […] to abstene […] fra all melting […] of talloun within thair bak hous […]
(US, Canada, euphemistic) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

pack +? house

packhouse (plural packhouses)

A building where fruit and vegetables are packed prior to distribution to shops.
- 1996, Gary Andrews, Seasonal Work in New Zealand (page 12)
  Trucks are used in conjunction with the forklift tractor if the fruit is to be delivered to a more distant cooperatively owned packhouse.

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