ice-house

See also: icehouse, Icehouse, and ice house

English

Noun

ice-house (plural ice-houses)

  1. Alternative spelling of icehouse
    • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 219:
      Within was a small chamber, chilly as an ice-house, and walled by Nature with solid limestone that was dewy with a cold sweat.
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