DCHP-1 Online

ice-house

• 1 n. a structure usually having insulated walls and roof, used as a storage place for meat and other perishables, the refrigerant being blocks of ice.

  See also: hangard (def. 2)  

• 2 n. a domed structure built of blocks of hard snow; an Eskimo snowhouse. (a misnomer, for igloos are made of blocks of snow rather than ice).

  See also: igloo (def. 1a)