smokehouse

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a building or enclosed structure in which meat or fish is cured and flavored with smoke

   The rusty saw blade was wedged behind the smokehouse wall.

2. 2
   noun

   a structure in which harvested tobacco is cured by smoke

   The farmer hung the tobacco leaves inside the smokehouse to cure.

A compound of smoke + house. Smokehouses preserve food by exposing it to controlled wood smoke; in tobacco-growing regions, the same word can denote a building used to smoke-cure leaves.

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