Lexic.us

Definition of Meat house

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

Definition of Meat house

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meat House

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 ..."

Other Resources: