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A plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products
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packinghouse
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
packinghouse \packinghouse\ n. A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse. A plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products. Syn: packing plant.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed; "they came from an apple packinghouse" a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products [syn: packing plant ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A factory-like facility for the butchering of meat animals, processing the meat into smaller cuts.
Usage examples of packinghouse.
They were varnishing ladders, and when they finished the ladders, they would start painting the tracks for the conveyors that ran nonstop when the packinghouse was in full operation.
When Major Gardeterark and his escort had left, Odim shut the door into the packinghouse and sat down by the fire.
Major Gardeterark and his escort had left, Odim shut the door into the packinghouse and sat down by the fire.
His business was packinghouses, but he took to the notion that a young man should be an attorney, a complete business in itself, he said admiringly.
There were workers in the row of packinghouses, of course, and huge sixteen-wheelers, both loaded and unloaded, rumbled through the streets.