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- noun Plural form of
icehouse .
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Examples
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He was the first American brewer to pasteurize his brews in the 1870s, and his ingenious development of a network of icehouses next to railroad tracks enabled Busch to ship his beer nationally while keeping it cold and fresh.
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Had a room in a farmhouse near the icehouses on Valley Avenue.
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Had a room in a farmhouse near the icehouses on Valley Avenue.
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Before the invention of refrigerators, icehouses were quite common; they were like small barns with thick walls, no windows, and tightly sealed doors.
The Courage To Be Christian MIKE NAPPA 2001
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Before the invention of refrigerators, icehouses were quite common; they were like small barns with thick walls, no windows, and tightly sealed doors.
The Courage To Be Christian MIKE NAPPA 2001
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Elsewhere, however, the ice was strong, for all the cutting for the big icehouses had been done long before near the Landing.
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr
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Bright and early the refrigerator train was run down to the icehouses, and twenty men were put to work icing the oranges.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various
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In order to bring apples from Utah to Colorado, and oranges from California to Arizona, icehouses have to be built on the desert at vast expense.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Elbert Hubbard 1885
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The other part was the jukeboxes, sitting outside stores and icehouses, propped up on soda crates, rusting in the weather.
NYT > Home Page By ANDY LANGER 2011
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"And the reality is that we know these thousands of licenses support other industries - like our grocery businesses, our restaurants, our icehouses, our trucking industries, our marinas, our ports, and many other related industries as well," Jindal said.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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