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packinghouse

packinghouse \packinghouse\ n.

  1. A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.

  2. A plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products.

    Syn: packing plant.

Wiktionary
packinghouse

n. A factory-like facility for the butchering of meat animals, processing the meat into smaller cuts.

WordNet
packinghouse
  1. n. a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed; "they came from an apple packinghouse"

  2. a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products [syn: packing plant]

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.