meat house
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6.2
- noun
- Archaic
:
casa de carne
- After the harvest, they prepared the meat house to hang and cure the game.
Examples
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We often visit the meat house to buy fresh cuts of pork and beef.
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Last week, a bear tore open the side of the meat house at the ranch, crawled in the hole, and ate most of a deer.
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The farmer stored his cured sausages in the meat house behind the barn.
Synonyms
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3.1
A building where goods are kept for later use
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5.2
A small building where people cure meat or fish with smoke
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Morphology
The meaning 'a building used for storing or curing meat' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'meat' (animal flesh used as food) with 'house' (a building), i.e. a house for meat. This simple noun–noun compounding follows common compositional patterns across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Meat house comes from the simple idea of a house for meat: a small building where people hung, smoked, or salted meat or fish to keep it from spoiling. That's why it means 'a small building on a farm used for storing or curing meat'.