snowporch

plural snowporches

1. alternativeAlternative form of snow porch.

   The animal had begun to thaw on the snowporch so she was butchering it into sections small enough to fit into the freezer.

   1985, Saturday Night - Volume 100, page 46

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   We sat huddled inside the snowhouse while Alikammiq crawled out onto the low snowporch to fight for Qingarullikkaaq's soul.

   1971, North/Nord - Volume 18, page 42

   The hut was a bonus, though. It had an enclosed snowporch peppered with hooks and, on the bare board floor, a boot rack and a large, flat stone to serve as a makeshift meat store.

   2006, Melanie McGrath, The Long Exile: A True Story of Deception and Survival Amongst the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic, →ISBN, page 71