smokehouse
nounUK /ˈsməʊkhaʊs/
US /ˈsmoʊkhaʊs/
A small building where meat or fish is hung in smoke to cook and keep it from spoiling.
Grandpa hung the fresh fish in the smokehouse for two days.
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2. A restaurant that serves smoked meats, especially barbecue.
We ate ribs and brisket at the new smokehouse downtown.
3. A room or chamber in a factory where smoke is used to treat food.
The factory's smokehouse can cure hundreds of sausages a day.
4. A structure used to smoke tobacco leaves.
The farmer built a smokehouse to dry his tobacco crop.