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packinghouse en · NOUN

Etymology

From packing + house.

Meanings

1. A facility where harvested food is processed into a salable condition.
   • The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp. 1976, USITC Publication - Issue 773, page A-33:
   • A few years back a program had been undertaken to change Wanchese into a major center for offshore commercial fishing. A "seafood park" with packinghouses was begun. 1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 502:
2. A slaughterhouse wherein animals are slaughtered and the meat is then processed into smaller cuts.

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Relateds

meat house · packhouse