Definition of Smokehouse

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

Exact synonyms: Meat House
Generic synonyms: House

Definition of Smokehouse

1. n. A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.

Definition of Smokehouse

1. Noun. A structure used to smoke food to preserve it and to add flavor. ¹

2. Noun. A structure in which freshly harvested tobacco is cured or preserved by smoking. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Smokehouse

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Smokehouse

1. A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smokehouse

smokebox
smokebushes
smoked
smoked haddock
smoked herring
smoked mackerel
smoked meat
smoked pole
smoked salmon
smoked salmons
smokeeasy
smokefall
smokefalls
smokefree
smokehouse (current term)
smokehouses
smokejack
smokejacks
smokejumper
smokejumpers
smokeless
smokeless powder
smokelessly
smokelessness
smokelike
smokepipe
smokepipes
smokepot
smokepots

Literary usage of Smokehouse

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

1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1856)
"smokehouse. The smokehouse, (no. 29,) is another Pennsylvania apple, introduced into the late Mr. Manning's collection upwards of twenty years ago. ..."

2. Around an Old Homestead: A Book of Memories by Paul Griswold Huston (1906)
"The smokehouse once a year is the place for smoking the hams and bacons, when films and threads of white slowly issue from every crack and fissure between ..."

3. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1896)
"These, as the plaintiff alleges, constitute the contents of the barn and butcher shop that were insured for four hundred dollars. The smokehouse and ..."

4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"Urne limited, for and about the construction of the said building and "appurtenance" may mean a yard, an alley, a cistern, an ice-house, a smokehouse, ..."

5. Farm Buildings: A Compilation of Plans for General Farm Barns, Cattle Barns by Sanders Publishing Co. (Chicago, Sanders Publishing Co. (Chicago) (1911)
"A CONCRETE smokehouse. Concrete is an excellent material with which to build smokehouses, since the walls are cool and have a tendency to prevent the ..."

6. The Kentucky Law Reporter by Kentucky Court of Appeals (1905)
"A smokehouse is not necessarily an outhouse belonging to or used with a dwelling ... The smokehouse mny be at one place and the dwelling house at another. ..."

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