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ˈsmoke-house
[smoke n.]
†1. A dwelling-house. Obs.—1
1672Petty Pol. Surv. Irel. (1719) 9 The simple Smoak-houses are..184,000.
2. A room in a tannery, heated by smouldering spent tan, where hides are unhaired.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVIII. 306/2 The stoutest and heaviest ox hides..are then hung on poles, in a close room called a smoke-house, in which is kept a smouldering fire of wet tan. [So in Ure Dict. Arts (1839) 764, Penny Cycl. (1842) XXIV. 37.] 1837L. Hebert Eng. & Mech. Encycl. II. 60 In some places, the hides were formerly piled wet one upon another..(or otherwise kept warm in what was called a smoke-house).
3. A house or room used for curing meat, fish, etc., by means of smoke. Chiefly N. Amer.
1746in Lower Norfolk Co. Virginia Antiquary (1896) I. iv. 110, I..bequeath to my wife Mary the free use & occupation of my dwelling house..with the Kitching, Store house Smoke house, Hen house [etc.]. 1841A. Langton Let. 29 May (1904) 282 We intend putting up a smoke-house soon, which is the best way of keeping hung meat. 1860Mayne Reid Hunter's Feast xiv, A part of the bacon furnishes the ‘smoke-house’ for home consumption during the winter. 1894Outing XXIV. 201/1 A rusty key that probably belonged to some smoke-house of long ago.
attrib.1901Cable Cavalier liii, The servants were loading the smoke-house meat into a waggon. |