icehouse
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- noun
- /ˈaɪsˌhaʊs/
- Archaic
- We should hurry and bring the ice to the icehouse before it melts.
- build an icehouse
- an old icehouse
Examples
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My grandparents had an electric refrigerator, but enough people still had iceboxes to support an icehouse.
Academic text (1999) -
Whenever we made ice cream (always peach), I rode with Pop to the icehouse to buy the crushed ice for the ice cream maker.
Academic text (1999) -
We better get this thing to the icehouse before dawn.
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The icehouse must be nearly empty.
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They were trying to reach an old icehouse on the edge of the lake, but the tunnel had been blocked off.
Fiction book (2000) -
Two of the interview subjects have built icehouses or bought walk-in refrigerators for crawfish storage.
Academic text (2013) -
There was a barbershop, a blacksmith shop, and an icehouse that was operated by the La'ie plantation store as well.
Academic text (2008) -
A large red barn stood behind it, surrounded by other outbuildings: forge, smokehouse, a vegetable cellar, carriage shed, and icehouse.
Fiction book (1990) -
The old icehouse was built to keep the ice from melting during summer.
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In winter, the icehouse was filled with blocks of ice from the nearby lake.
Synonyms
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A place that keeps food or goods very cold to stop them from spoiling
How Cool
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Icehouse comes from the simple parts ice ('frozen water') and house ('building'). Before electric refrigerators, people used an icehouse like a cold pantry to store ice so it would not melt, which is why the word means a building for keeping ice.