beef house

English

Noun

beef house (plural beef houses)

1. Alternative form of beefhouse
   1. slaughterhouse
      • 1983, Judgments, etc., of the Arbitration Court of New Zealand, page 225:

        These jobs were intended to last until the beef house had been rebuilt and again became fully operational.

   2. steakhouse
      • 1910, The Japan Magazine - Volume 12, page 556:

        Another first-class beef house, more in the center of town, is the Matsukiya at No. 19 Takekawa-cho, Ginza, not far front Shimbashi station.