beef house

noun

slaughterhouse

Meanings

nounbeef house (plural beef houses)

plural beef houses

  1. Alternative form of beefhouse.
    1. slaughterhouse

      These jobs were intended to last until the beef house had been rebuilt and again became fully operational.

      1983, Judgments, etc., of the Arbitration Court of New Zealand, page 225
    2. steakhouse

      Another first-class beef house, more in the center of town, is the Matsukiya at No. 19 Takekawa-cho, Ginza, not far front Shimbashi station.

      1910, The Japan Magazine - Volume 12, page 556
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