meat house
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
One day de Yanks come clean de crib of all de corn and de meat house of all de meat.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration
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
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 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
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