noun, a building for storing ice, usually partly or wholly underground
“We always had ice during the summertime. We had an ice house.”
“Tom had a nice house up there on the shore. But that was a community thing. The Smiths used to fill that ice house.”
“A bunch of them would get there, and then they had a conveyor belt that they used to back the sleigh down and then load it on the ice and then take her out and fill the ice house.”
“We never cut any of that ice. Later years they used to just cut it in the harbour here. We’d just put a slide right up into the ice house.”
“They have pulleys on it?”
“Yeah, pulley up in the ice house and pull the cake straight up in with a horse or tractor.”
“There was an ice house just down here.”