different between storeys vs saltbox

English

storeys

salt +? box

saltbox (plural saltboxes)

A box for keeping salt in.
A similar box formerly used as a percussion instrument in burlesque music.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol I, ch. 27:
  [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.
(US) a distinctively shaped wooden frame house with two storeys at the front and one behind, characteristic of New England
A roof where one side slopes farther down than the other.

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