DCHP-1 Online
glacier [< Cdn F glacière ice-box] Obs. 
n. a cold-storage pit for preserving food, especially meat and fish.
See also: hangard (def. 2) ice-pit ice-vault
- 1809 (1916) As there was now plenty of shore ice of sufficient thickness, we made a glacier for frozen meat. This is a square of about twelve feet, the bottom and the sides lined with ice. . . . In these meat Glaciers, a layer of Meat is laid on the ice, and then a layer of ice, and thus continued.
- 1810 (1950) 54 lbs of Meat in the Glacier.
- 1950 [In] the glacière or ice-pit . . . were placed quarters of buffalo.
- 1809 (1916) As there was now plenty of shore ice of sufficient thickness, we made a glacier for frozen meat. This is a square of about twelve feet, the bottom and the sides lined with ice. . . . In these meat Glaciers, a layer of Meat is laid on the ice, and then a layer of ice, and thus continued.