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a smokehouse; (in later use) spec. a building in which cloth is exposed to smoke in order to bleach it.
a building where curing is carried on; spec. ‘the building on a sugar estate (in the West Indies) where the hogsheads of newly potted sugar are…
A house or room used for curing meat, fish, etc., by means of smoke. Chiefly North American.
= smoke-house, n. 3. rare.