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# smokehouse

noun (a smokehouse, smokehouses)

«smokehouse» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smokehouse/#m1)

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

### Note

Compound: smoke + house. Plural: smokehouses.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «smokehouse» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smokehouse/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«smokehouse» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/smokehouse.html) on Mova free.