ice delivery door

noun

A small exterior door to a house that opens to a built-in icebox (“cold food storage unit cooled by ice”) ice container compartment, so that the ice delivery man can place fresh ice directly into the ice container in an ice box. (As iceboxes were replaced by refrigerators, these doors fell out of use and were no longer built.)

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Meanings

nounice delivery door (plural ice delivery doors)

plural ice delivery doors

  1. historicalarchitectureA small exterior door to a house that opens to a built-in icebox (“cold food storage unit cooled by ice”) ice container compartment, so that the ice delivery man can place fresh ice directly into the ice container in an ice box. (As iceboxes were replaced by refrigerators, these doors fell out of use and were no longer built.)

    Synonyms: ice door

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA small exterior door to a house that opens to a built-in icebox (“cold food storage unit cooled by ice”) ice container compartment, so that the ice delivery man can place fresh ice directly into the ice container in an ice box. (As iceboxes were replaced by refrigerators, these doors fell out of use and were no longer built.)

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“ice delivery door.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ice%20delivery%20door. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ice delivery door,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ice%20delivery%20door.

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