meat house

American  

noun

Chiefly Midland U.S.

1. a smokehouse.

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meat house

The meat was cut and weighed by the foreman of the field hands, and piled on planks before the meat house.

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

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

De meat house wuz full of smoked po'k, but we only got a little piece now an' den.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives by Work Projects Administration

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

A fence ran around the yard and there was a meat house near a little orchard of apple-trees, under which were many hives of bee-gums.

From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by Fox, John