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snow porch

snow porch noun: an unheated enclosure outside the entrance to a house or hut in the arctic, often used for storage.

Noun

snow porch (plural snow porches)

  1. An unheated enclosure outside the entrance to a house or hut in the arctic, often used for storage.
    • Each hut design incorporates a "snow porch". The snow porch provides a buffer space between covered way and the hut, cool-room doors being fitted to both covered way and hut entrances.1963, Symposium on Antarctic Logistics, Held at Boulder, Colorado, August 13-17, 1962
    • Extra food could be stored in the snow porch, which protected it from predators.2008, Clarissa W. Confer, Daily Life in Pre-columbian Native America, →ISBN, page 188

Forms of snow porch

pluralsnow porches
alternative formsnowporch
alternative formsnow-porch

Questions about snow porch

What does snow porch mean?
Snow porch means an unheated enclosure outside the entrance to a house or hut in the arctic, often used for storage.
What part of speech is snow porch?
Snow porch is a noun.
What is the plural of snow porch?
The plural of snow porch is snow porches.

Words near snow porch in the dictionary

  1. snow plows
  2. snow pole
  3. snow poles
  4. snow poppies
  5. snow poppy
  6. snow porch
  7. snow porches
  8. snow pudding
  9. snow puddings
  10. snow quartz
  11. snow quartzes

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