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meat house

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noun Chiefly Midland U.S.

a smokehouse.

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Nearby words

  1. meat,
  2. meat and drink to one,
  3. meat and potatoes,
  4. meat ax,
  5. meat hook,
  6. meat loaf,
  7. meat packing,
  8. meat tea,
  9. meat wagon,
  10. 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