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ˈice-house
1. A structure, often partly or wholly underground, and with non-conducting walls, in which ice is stored in winter for use during the year. Often taken as the type of a frigid place.
1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 96 The Persians make great use of Ice..; they make not their Ice-houses as in France. 1698Froger Voy. 35 Their Hutts..are of a round Figure, and cannot be better compar'd than to our Ice-Houses. 1772Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXII. 285 note, The very name of an ice-house almost strikes one with a chill. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xiv. 301 When we fill an ice-house..we break the ice into very small fragments. 1892Daily News 15 Mar. 7/2 It is absolutely impossible to sit here this cold weather..the place is like an ice-house.
2. A hut made of ice or snow.
1857G. F. McDougall Eventful Voy. ‘Resolute’ 426 The remains of two ice houses yet existed, but were rapidly thawing away, under the influence of the heat of the sun. 1958Listener 25 Sept. 482/2 They sat marooned for four days in an icehouse 14,000 feet up. |