DCHP-3

ice-house

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a structure usually having insulated walls and roof, used as a storage place for meat and other perishables, the refrigerant being blocks of ice.

See: hangard(def. 2)

Quotations

1792
They use the ice to cool liquors and butter, and the ice houses are used for larders to keep meat.
1832
When we had completed the house, we raised a barn . . . with an ice-house, root house, and summer dairy beneath it. . . .
1934
. . . there was always a large ice-house full of ice so that everything brought in could be kept fresh.
1963
The southeast and northwest bastions were ice-houses.
2n.

a domed structure built of blocks of hard snow; an Eskimo snowhouse. (a misnomer, for igloos are made of blocks of snow rather than ice).

See: igloo(meaning 1a)

Quotations

1857
The remains of two ice houses yet existed, but were rapidly thawing away, under the influence of the heat of the sun.
1961
As in years past, Pelly Bay's 125 Eskimos will build an ice house for their Christmas Mass. As children watch, the men tramp out a circle in the snow, then make six igloos of ordinary size. They fill the spaces in between with snow blocks, raising a dome 15 feet high. Then the inside walls are cut away.