ice delivery door
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small exterior door to a house that opens to a built-in icebox (“cold food storage unit cooled by ice”) ice container compartment, so that the ice delivery man can place fresh ice directly into the ice container in an ice box. (As iceboxes were replaced by refrigerators, these doors fell out of use and were no longer built.)
Inflected Forms
ice delivery doors (plural)