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glacier

[< Cdn F glacière ice-box]

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a cold-storage pit for preserving food, especially meat and fish.

See: hangard(def. 2),ice-pit,ice-vault

Quotations

1809

As there was now plenty of shore ice of sufficient thickness, we made a glacier for frozen meat. This is a square of about twelve feet, the bottom and the sides lined with ice. . . . In these meat Glaciers, a layer of Meat is laid on the ice, and then a layer of ice, and thus continued.

1810

54 lbs of Meat in the Glacier.

1950

[In] the glacière or ice-pit . . . were placed quarters of buffalo.