icehouse.

1. A building or chamber designed to store ice, traditionally for use before mechanical refrigeration.

2. An informal beer-selling establishment, especially in Texas usage associated with former ice businesses.

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Words that belong together

• estate icehouse
• underground icehouse

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The estate’s icehouse lay beneath the trees.

The underground icehouse retained its thick walls.

The guide explained how the icehouse stored winter ice.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular icehouse; plural icehouses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.