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# smokehouse

«smokehouse» in Mova's school dictionary: **hung and smoked over a slow fire to flavour it and keep…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a smokehouse, smokehouses)

### meaning for a pupil

A building or room where meat or fish is hung and smoked over a slow fire to flavour it and keep it from going bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smokehouse/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

History and food science: smoking was a way to preserve food before fridges, using smoke and drying. Today smokehouses make smoked salmon, kippers and bacon. In farm and village stories it is one of the outbuildings.

### examples

- The fish hung in the smokehouse for two days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smokehouse/#x1)
- Grandpa's farm had an old wooden smokehouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smokehouse/#x2)
- Smoked salmon comes from a smokehouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smokehouse/#x3)
- The kippers were made in a smokehouse by the harbour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smokehouse/#x4)
- Before fridges, many farms had a smokehouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smokehouse/#x5)
- The smokehouse smelled of oak smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smokehouse/#x6)

### note

Compound: smoke + house. Plural: smokehouses.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «smokehouse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smokehouse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.