Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A structure in which meat or fish is cured with smoke.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A building in which meats or fish are cured by smoking; also, one in which smoked meats are stored. The former is provided with hoots for suspending the pieces to be smoked, which are hung over a smoldering fire kindled at the bottom of the apartment.
- n. In leather manufacturing a close room heated by means of a fire of spent tan, which smolders, but produces no flame. It is used for unhairing hides, which are hung up in the smoky atmosphere until incipient fermentation has softened the epidermis and the roots of the hair.
Wiktionary
- n. A structure used to smoke food to preserve it and to add flavor.
- n. A structure in which freshly harvested tobacco is cured or preserved by smoking.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small house where smoke is used to cure meat or fish
Examples
“But in the main it was what they called a smokehouse, as it was universally known in the”
“Plenty in the smokehouse was the cornerstone of the old time southern cookery.”
“The food and drink, from a "smokehouse" barbecue sandwich to a "big bowl" margarita, was mediocre at best.”
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“The Boucaniere, which means "smokehouse" in English, is a popular family-run diner in”
“A little house called the smokehouse was built in one of the corners of the yard.”
“Then Doe will be busy rendering lard and salting pork for the smokehouse.”
“The smokehouse Pinney's of Orford is still there, and still smoking fish over whole oak logs pretty much as it was when Pinney set it up.”
“Last night I closed the door to the smokehouse where the bloodroot is kept in cardboard boxes, away from the mice and bugs.”
“She is tending and preparing the hogs for slaughter and the meat to be cured in the smokehouse.”
“The Smokehouse was used for the curing of meat, Jack's smokehouse can be found on the wooded hillside just below the Pig Palace.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘smokehouse’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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the old west
words you can sling a gun to.
lonesome, desperado, gun-slinger, providence, smokehouse, stagecoach, pilgrim, frontier, ranch, equestrian, heartland, pioneer and 4 more...
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