| 单词 | ice cellar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasice cellar ice cellar n. chiefly North American a cellar or pit kept cool by refrigeration (traditionally by blocks of ice) and used to preserve food and other stores; cf. ice pit n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun] cellar?c1225 larderc1305 pantrya1325 butleryc1325 spencec1386 larder-house1390 aumbrya1398 lardinera1400 meatfettle1440 spinde1481 selyer1483 pantyr?a1500 vault1500 eschansonnery1514 lardrya1552 lard-house1555 coveyc1593 brine-house1594 dispense1622 reservatory1647 provedore1694 ice cellar1735 spring house1755 provision house1787 futtah1834 pataka1842 1735 N. Tindal tr. D. Cantemir Hist. Growth & Decay Othman Empire II. iv. 327 Whether there could possibly be a cooler place any where in July than that ice-cellar? 1771 J. R. Forster tr. P. Kalm Trav. N. Amer. III. 232 Some of the people of quality make use of ice-cellars, to keep beer cool. 1865 Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle N.-W. Passage by Land vi. 82 They even went down into the ice-cellar, where the meat is kept. 1921 Chambers's Jrnl. 21 May 395/2 Seeds of maple and wheat have been observed growing into blocks of ice in an ice-cellar. 2004 National Geographic Sept. 33/1 Brower takes me to his family's traditional ice cellars..and points out how his stores of muktuk—whale skin and blubber—recently began spoiling. < as lemmas |
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