meat house

American  

noun

Chiefly Midland U.S.

1. a smokehouse.

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meat house

Still chuckling he went outside to a little log meat house and returned with a whole beaver tail for my inspection.

From A Mountain Boyhood by Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)

Palmer, travelling salesman for a Pittsburgh meat house, was on the ill-fated day express, one car of which was washed away.

From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert

A freshnet once bore his wine cellar and meat house miles away from the plantation.

From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Jacobs, Harriet Ann

A dog was found dead on the public square, I understand; and I hear that old Mart Henley's son has been suspected of stealing a ham from Avery's meat house.

From Old Ebenezer by Read, Opie Percival

I gad, the Major snorted so loud that my horse broke loose from the post, and that's the reason I'm stepping around here like a blind dog in a meat house.

From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival