Definition of Ice chest

1. Noun. A refrigerator for cooling liquids.

Exact synonyms: Cooler
Generic synonyms: Icebox, Refrigerator
Derivative terms: Cool

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ice Chest

ice barrier
ice barriers
ice bath
ice baths
ice bear
ice blue
ice blues
ice boat
ice boats
ice breaker
ice breakers
ice bucket
ice buckets
ice cap
ice caps
ice chest (current term)
ice cider
ice climbing
ice coffee
ice compress
ice cool
ice cream
ice cream bar
ice cream cone
ice cream cones
ice cream headache
ice cream maker
ice cream makers
ice cream sandwich
ice cream soda

Literary usage of Ice chest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bacteria, Yeasts, and Molds in the Home by Herbert William Conn (1917)
"The larger the amount of ice in an ice chest the lower its temperature and the greater its efficiency. If the amount of ice is very small there will be such ..."

2. Reminiscences of a Diplomatist's Wife: Further Reminiscences of a by Hugh Fraser (1912)
"... The Grocer's As- si slant — Scandal and Compromise — Revelations of the Ice-chest — A Conquering Substitute — A Painful Interview — •' Them Jams, Madam! ..."

3. Scouting for Girls: Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts (1920)
"If your ice chest drips into a pan which must be emptied daily, have a regular time for emptying it ... Clean the drip pan whenever you clean the ice chest. ..."

4. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"To operate the right-hand filter and to use the ice chest, the valves k, m, o,f>, ... To by-pass both filters and the ice chest, or, in other words, ..."

5. Principles and Practice of Plumbing by John Joseph Cosgrove (1922)
"The box may be made water-tight by lining it with sheet metal of some kind, or by placing inside of the ice chest a specially built galvanized steel tank. ..."

6. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1888)
"The officers took samples of dirty water, one from a tank under the bar near which the defendant stood, and the other from the bottom of an ice-chest. ..."

7. Remarks by Bill Nye by Bill Nye (1886)
"There is actually a glow of heat around that ice-chest that I don't notice elsewhere ... They seem to think it is not built tightly enough for an ice-chest. ..."

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