ice caven.
/ˈʌɪs keɪv/, U.S. /ˈaɪs ˌkeɪv/ 1. A natural cave in which the temperature remains cool (and which may contain ice) throughout the year.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > cave > other
hill-den1582
self-open1674
ice cave1770
bone cave1813
rock house1860
cavelet1864
1770 W. Hooper tr. J. F. von Bielfeld Lett. II. xlii. 146 The ruins of a colonnade..serve to cover an ice cave [Fr. une glacière].
1796 W. Strickland Let. 28 May in T. Jefferson Papers (2002) XXIX. 116 Several caves..are there [sc. along a northern branch of the Potomac in the mountains of Virginia] called the Ice-caves. The air issuing out of these is so intensely cold, that the insides of them are throughout the year incrusted with a coat of Ice.
1853 C. Kingsley A. Smith & A. Pope in Misc. (1860) I. 289 His wresting from her the secret which had been locked for ages in the ice caves.
1933 J. Buchan Prince of Captivity i. iii. 95 He would draw terrible pictures of an ice-cave at Gundbjorns Fjord, and two dead men.
1961 R. M. Patterson Buffalo Head iv. 136 We explored..finding..mountain sheep, ice caves, the fairest of alpine rock gardens, [etc.].
2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 212/2 The guerrillas had taken refuge in an ice cave that the creatures apparently used as a shelter.
2. A natural cave or opening in ice, esp. at the foot or side of a glacier. Also: a cave hollowed out of ice as a shelter.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > glacier > [noun] > hollow at lower end
ice cave1810
glacière1865
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > cave or underground dwelling
earth houseeOE
cavec1220
bikea1522
mattamore1695
subterranean1714
subterrane1759
yurt1780
weem1792
subterrene1793
ice cave1810
gibber-gunyah1847
dugout1855
fogou1864
abri1887
pit house1907
1810 L. Aikin Epist. Women 22 'Mid Greenland ice-caves warm the female bear.
1897 Geogr. Jrnl. June 670 The term ‘ice-cave’..should especially apply to the hollows in the ice at the lower end of glaciers, whence the glacier waters make their exit.
1930 F. Smythe Kangchenjunga Adventure ii. 45 In lieu of tents, ice caves were carved in the solid ice at Camps Eight and Nine, large enough to hold six to eight persons.
1985 M. Parfit South Light (1988) ix. 118 In his lab freezer DeVries kept a cluster of ice crystals formed in glacial ice caves near McMurdo.
2011 Prospect (Nexis) 24 Feb. One evening of my trip I crawled around the ice caves beneath the Erebus Glacier Tongue.
3. A kind of small domestic refrigerator. Now historical.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for
ice room1758
ice chamber1768
icebox1792
cool chamber1801
ice chest1826
freezer1847
refrigerator1861
chill-room1884
ice cave1884
cold store1895
cool store1906
Coolgardie?1924
fridge1926
Frigidaire1926
deep freeze1941
chest freezer1947
hydro-cooler1947
reefer1958
fridge-freezer1971
flash freezer1984
blast freezer1986
1884 A. W. Marshall Brit. Patent 13,007 (1885) 1 Improvements in ‘ice caves’ or apparatus for freezing soufflés and moulding ice puddings.
1885 A. B. Marshall Bk. Ices 41 Freeze and mould, and leave in the ice cave for 2 hours.
1911 Madame 20 May 318/1 Various forms of iced pudding, which, even if you do not happen to possess one of A. B. Marshall's ice caves, are still quite possible to prepare with very little trouble.
1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 167/3 Ice caves with loose shelves. Japanned iron.
2007 A. Broomfield Food & Cooking in Victorian Eng. vii. 140 By the end of the century, ice cream for the dessert had become commonplace, affordable..because of Marshall's ice cave and other imitations, and also because many ice-cream shops and restaurants installed electric freezers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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