beef-house

beef-house (plural beef-houses)

1. Alternative form of beefhouse
   1. slaughterhouse
      • 1876, House Documents - Volume 12; Volume 284, page 16:

        ... this man's case, and he informed me then that it was used as a slaughter-house, and I then rode over and inspected the place, found a small corral or inclosure, also a log house and one small building which I supposed was the beef-house.

      • 1949 -, Gladys Scott Thomson, Family background, page 115:

        Here too was the beef-house, which had its beef pan, a fixture of the house, standing on bricks and having an outer coat of lead. With the beef-house went the wet larder which had its trestle table on which to lay the beef and its block on which the meat was cut up, together with a great powdering trough, a great powdering tub and various shelves and half tubs, all of which were fixtures.

   2. steakhouse
      • 1850, Charles Dickens, David Copperfield:

        Once, I remember carrying my own bread (which I had brought from home in the morning) under my arm, wrapped in a piece of paper, like a book, and going to a famous alamode beef-house near Drury Lane, and ordering a 'small plate' of that delicacy to eat with it.

      • 2010, Cora Harrison, The Montgomery Murder:

        'Six plates of roast beef,' he said, placing two shillings with a flourish on the counter of the beef-house while the others sat at a table by the window.