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ice house

noun

  1. a building for storing ice


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The fisherman made port at Maquoit late in the afternoon, and was warped to her berth at the ice-house wharf.

A man charged with burglary in Hoxton Street was captured in a meat-storage ice-house.

I looked at the lamps, went upstairs into every bedroom in turn, and then went round the house, and even into the ice-house.

The cold weather is coming; there's no fireplace; with the window and the roof it will be like an ice-house.

A cheap ice-house may be made to afford an important share of country comforts in such settlements.

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