noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A structure used to smoke food to preserve it and to add flavor.

   "Snakes hang thick from the cypress trees / Like sausage on a smokehouse wall."

2. 2
   a small house where smoke is used to cure meat or fish wordnet
3. 3
   A structure in which freshly harvested tobacco is cured or preserved by smoking.

Synonyms

All synonyms

meat housesmokerysmokery

Example

More examples

"Now and then, he would bring a kipper or two home from the smokehouse."

Etymology

From smoke + house.

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