cold store

¹

noun

1. a refrigerated compartment or building for keeping foods, furs, etc., in cold storage.

cold-store

²

[ kohld-stawr, -stohr, -stawr, -stohr ]

verb (used with object)

, cold-stored, cold-stor·ing.

1. to store in cold storage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cold store¹

First recorded in 1890–95; by back formation from cold storage

Example Sentences

Specialty flours: “Those go bad pretty quickly,” Kimball says, but not if you cold-store them.

From Washington Post

Later, as police evacuated shoppers who had been hiding in a cold-store and crouching in the aisles, Beltrame offered to swap places with Lakdim’s hostage.

From The Guardian

"You can have cold-store outside," she said.

From BBC

The time during which soft fruit can be kept even in cold-store is limited, and does not exceed about six weeks.

From Project Gutenberg

How they dug him out of cold-store like a Canterbury sheep, Took their tongues and kindly licked him where his nose had gone to sleep, Called attention to the cognac which they wore in little kegs And remobilised the stagnant circulation in his legs.

From Project Gutenberg