icebox

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The bottom compartment of my icebox -- the vegetable crisper -- has an adjustable vent on the top of it.

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  1. noun An insulated chest or box into which ice is placed, used for cooling and preserving food.
  2. noun A refrigerator.

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  • As if we had never fought, Myra and I put our heads together to figure out a means of survival Fortunately I had some dollars in my other pants, so that we were able to stock the icebox, and even to buy a chunk of ice. —  FSF - March2006
  • Wanted me to turn out a scad of lying copy when emigration to that dismal icebox was showing signs of falling off And you refused So I refused. —  SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES MAGAZINE
  • As she got the chile rolls and a pitcher of suvipsi out of the icebox, she noticed that the singing had stopped. —  ChallengingDestiny#24:August2007
  • The kitchen refrigerator was an actual icebox, complete with near-melted stub of ice, and the single tap over the stone sink looked a hundred years old. —  The Art of Detection
  • But when they came back for the icebox, Blue Clad said, "No." —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 06 - December 2001
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