ice house
Frozen block repository
An ice house is a building for storing ice, typically harvested from frozen lakes or rivers in winter and packed in sawdust to last through summer.
Before mechanical refrigeration, ice houses supplied ice for food preservation and cooling drinks.
The term also refers to a small shelter used by ice fishermen on frozen lakes.
Domed snow shelter
- insulationThermal transfer prevention
- sawdustPowdery timber waste
- thatched roofStraw or reed covering
- stone wallsRefuses to cooperate
underground · ventilation · drainage · storage vault · brick · timber frame · earthen · subterranean
Refrigerated preservation space
- meat lockerRefrigerated room for carcasses
- food storagePreserving consumables for later
- perishablesItems prone to decay
- provisionsStockpiled food and supplies
stockpile · refrigeration · cooling · icebox · butcher · dairy · root cellar · larder
Solidified by extreme cold
subzero · freezing · icy · cold snap · deep freeze · winter harvest · January · February
Massachusetts pond, simplicity symbol
- Thoreau19th-century American naturalist-essayist
- Victorian eraBritain under its longest-reigning queen
- colonial AmericaBritish North Atlantic settlements, pre-1776
- estateProperty and grounds
plantation · brewery · dairy farm · hospital · hotel · obsolete · antebellum · industrial revolution
igloo
Domed snow shelter
- insulationThermal transfer prevention
- sawdustPowdery timber waste
- thatched roofStraw or reed covering
stone walls · underground · ventilation · drainage · storage vault · brick · timber frame · earthen · subterranean
cold storage
Refrigerated preservation space
- meat lockerRefrigerated room for carcasses
- food storagePreserving consumables for later
- perishablesItems prone to decay
provisions · stockpile · refrigeration · cooling · icebox · butcher · dairy · root cellar · larder · cold room
frozen
Solidified by extreme cold
polar · subzero · freezing · icy · cold snap · deep freeze · winter harvest · January · February · snow
Walden Pond
Massachusetts pond, simplicity symbol
- Thoreau19th-century American naturalist-essayist
- Victorian eraBritain under its longest-reigning queen
- colonial AmericaBritish North Atlantic settlements, pre-1776
estate · plantation · brewery · dairy farm · hospital · hotel · obsolete · antebellum · industrial revolution · domestic service
19th century
The eighteen hundreds
- storagedrive, silos, bins, tanks, storehouse
- fishing industrycommercial fishing, fishing fleet, fishing vessels, fishing ports, fishing port
- cold storagefreezer, refrigerator, fridge, icebox, walk-in cooler
- farm structuresbarn, barn door, silo, chicken coop, hay barn
- fishing villagefisherman, fishermen, fishing boat, fishing fleet, nets
- frontier towngeneral store, saloon, sheriff's office, livery stable, hitching post
ice housefurnace room
Space housing heating equipment
boiler house · kiln · forge · hot house · steam room