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meat house

noun Chiefly Midland U.S.

a smokehouse.

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Nearby words

meat, meat and drink to one, meat and potatoes, meat ax, meat hook, meat house, meat loaf, meat packing, meat tea, meat wagon, meat-and-potatoes
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Examples from the Web for meat house

  • It would not be necessary to keep Running Rabbit under close surveillance until the beef in the meat-house was getting low.

    'Me-Smith'|Caroline Lockhart

  • "But you must not hide the key of the meat-house, Uncle," and now Ruth laughed outright at him.

    Ruth Fielding At College|Alice B. Emerson

  • We now had the meat-house covered, and all our game carefully hung up in small pieces.

    Oregon and Eldorado|Thomas Bulfinch