Meaning

1 senses
  1. (archaic)A well (hole in the ground) in which ice was stored in the era of the ice trade and iceboxes (18th to mid-20th centuries); often with some degree of construction over it, similar to that used with icehouses, root cellars, and springhouses.

Origin

From ice + well.

From ice + well.

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Forms

plural: ice wells
Singularice well
Pluralice wells

regular

See also

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