Definition of Meat house

1. Noun. A small house where smoke is used to cure meat or fish.

Exact synonyms: Smokehouse
Generic synonyms: House

2. Noun. A small house (on a farm) where meat is stored.
Generic synonyms: House

Definition of Meat house

1. Noun. A place where meat is cured or stored ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meat House

meat-and-potatoes
meat-eating
meat-eating(a)
meat-packing business
meat-packing industry
meat-space
meat and potatoes
meat cleaver
meat counter
meat draw
meat grinder
meat hook
meat hooks
meat house
meat loaf
meat markets
meat packer
meat packing
meat pie
meat pies
meat puppets
meat raffle
meat safe
meat shield

Literary usage of Meat house

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts: ... Preserved in by Virginia, William Pitt Palmer, Sherwin McRae, Raleigh Edward Colston, Henry W. Flournoy (1883)
"... County Court of Justices, for " having entered a meat house in the night and taken thereout some pieces of bacon" to which charge he plead guilty, &c. ..."

2. New System of Ventilation: Which Has Been Thoroughly Tested Under the by Henry Albert Gouge (1881)
"In that capacity he applied to me for my services in ventilating his meat-house. When the hotel was first commenced, he used large provision closets or ..."

3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"As country women usually do, they saved the coarsest offal, put it in a pot, and set it away in the corner of the meat- house, intending to add the ley of ..."

4. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"Accused broke into and entered a meat house situated In the yard in which the owner's dwelling had stood. The dwelling had been burned a short time previous ..."

5. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"Accused broke into and entered a meat house situated in the yard in which the owner's dwelling had stood. The dwelling had been burned a short time previous ..."

6. A History of the Seventh Day Baptists in West Virginia: Including the by Corliss Fitz Randolph (1905)
"The church met, for worship and business meetings alike, in the homes of its members at Lewisport; on Rock Run; and on meat house Fork in the Township Hall ..."

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