icehouse
/ˈaɪsˌhaʊs/
noun
- A building or structure used for storing ice, especially in the past before refrigerators were common.
- They restored the historic icehouse and turned it into a small museum.
- The old icehouse was built partly underground to keep the ice from melting.
- In the 1800s, many large estates had an icehouse where blocks of ice were kept through the summer.