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A small house where smoke is used to cure meat or fish
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smokehouse
Word definitions for smokehouse in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small house where smoke is used to cure meat or fish [syn: meat house ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smokehouse \Smoke"house`\, n. A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A smokehouse (North American) or smokery (British) is a building where meat or fish is cured with smoke . The finished product might be stored in the building, sometimes for a year or more. Even when smoke is not used, such a building—typically a subsidiary ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A structure used to smoke food to preserve it and to add flavor. 2 A structure in which freshly harvested tobacco is cured or preserved by smoking.
Usage examples of smokehouse.
Behind the smokehouse after stoking a fire with wet cobs and hickory limbs.
Chapters are devoted to the economic erection and use of barns, grain barns, horse barns, cattle barns, sheep barns, cornhouses, smokehouses, icehouses, pig pens, granaries, etc.
In the smokehouses there, devotees were preparing racks of fish and slices of monoclonal protein from the fermenters.
We left Carl Matteau like that and drove six miles back to the Bannerman place and locked Popeye in the smokehouse.
Yankee regiment was out of the country, raiding smokehouses and stables, and houses where they were sure there were no men, tearing up beds and floors and walls, frightening white women and torturing Negroes to find where money or silver was hidden.
He sold everything: the house, the business, the fishing boats, the outboard motors, the dragnets, the smokehouses, and the store with its pulleys, tool boxes, and variously smelling miscellaneous wares.
The smell of herring from the smokehouses was beginning to make her feel a little queasy.
Some nights she even went down and hid in the crawl space under the smokehouse.
It was more hotel than home: twenty guest suites and ten bedrooms - all with private baths, two dining halls, a grand ballroom, winter garden, countless salons, six staircases, a free-standing smokehouse and seven dumb waiters.
We added more green alder branches to the slow fire in the smokehouse.
He had trudged through wineries, trattorias and smokehouses, posed for photo opportunities in refrigerator rooms full of hanging prosciutto, and delivered lectures on the history of food going back to the Etruscans.
Even as the Knight came on, Tavi hurled a handful of rock salt he had taken from Bernardholt's smokehouse at the oncoming Knight, and then dove frantically to one side.
Farms, mills, smokehouses, stovehouses, broken watch towers and fortifications, and crannogs extending out over the lake on stilts, all lay within a short distance of the road.