ice-vault

Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

Quotations

1831

The people boating home clay, squaring posts for an ice vault, etc.

1833

. . . Milette . . . after stowing by the green meat in the ice vault, cut firewood.