snowporch

snowporch

English

Noun

snowporch (plural snowporches)

1. Alternative form of snow porch
   • 1971, North/Nord - Volume 18, page 42:

     We sat huddled inside the snowhouse while Alikammiq crawled out onto the low snowporch to fight for Qingarullikkaaq's soul.

   • 1985, Saturday Night - Volume 100, page 46:

     The animal had begun to thaw on the snowporch so she was butchering it into sections small enough to fit into the freezer.

   • 2006, Melanie McGrath, The Long Exile: A True Story of Deception and Survival Amongst the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic, →ISBN, page 71:

     The hut was a bonus, though. It had an enclosed snowporch peppered with hooks and, on the bare board floor, a boot rack and a large, flat stone to serve as a makeshift meat store.

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• Prochnows