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ice house

British  

noun

  1. a building for storing ice

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They were transforming a century-old Bronx ice house into a charter school.

From New York Times May 30, 2022

Until the burly men at the ice house loaded two big bags of ice into the back.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2021

There, they enjoyed ice cream and chilled drinks thanks to ice harvested in winter and stored in an ice house.

From Salon Dec. 31, 2020

Aimar & Co. or the Woolfe Street ice house.

From Washington Times Jan. 21, 2017

He walked off, barefooted on the coral rocks, to the ice house where the baits were stored.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

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