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freezing works

British  

noun

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

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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.

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