freezing works

British  

noun

1. a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export See also chamber

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Example Sentences

Freezing works because the chemical reactions driving degradation occur more slowly at low temperatures.

From Nature

Before freezing works were established, boiling down was the one resource, the tallow, hides, and sheepskins giving a meagre return, whilst the valuable carcass went to the pigs.

From Project Gutenberg

The airplane-induced freezing works by the forced-cooling process.

From Scientific American

But freezing works against the Nazis now.

From Time Magazine Archive

Payment is usually made on the butter-fat percentages; and in order to afford suppliers an opportunity of checking the returns received from private factories the Government established a butter factory in connection with the export freezing works at Port Adelaide.

From Project Gutenberg