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Cold storage   /koʊld stˈɔrədʒ/   Listen
Cold storage

noun
1.
In a state of abeyance or postponement.
2.
Refrigerated storage for preservation.






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"Cold storage" Quotes from Famous Books



... full of flavor from being aged on shelves at a higher temperature than cold storage. Its rind is darker from the growth of mold and this shade is sometimes painted on more ordinary Cheddars to make them look like Coon, which always brings a 10 percent ...
— The Complete Book of Cheese • Robert Carlton Brown

... especially song birds, should be rigidly protected. Game birds should never be shot to a greater extent than will offset the natural rate of increase. . . . Care should be taken not to encourage the use of cold storage or other market systems which are a benefit to no one but the wealthy epicure who can afford to pay a heavy price for luxuries. These systems tend to the destruction of the game, which would bear most severely upon the very men whose rapacity has been ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

... usually last but a short time. But if the products can be put away in cold storage over night, or in water in a cool place, then it is possible to ...
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. • Ellen Eddy Shaw

... the hills and across the Sand, the English flashlights signalling all night. We put a rubber blanket on the grass and wrapped up in steamer rugs but both of us died several times of cold and even sitting on the fire failed to warm me. We were awakened out of a cold storage sort of sleep by pom-poms going off right over our They sounded just as disturbing I found from the rear as when you are in front of them. They are the most effective of all the small guns for ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis

... battalions," but because it has control of the hearts of men. It spreads because human hearts are lying fallow and ready to welcome the seeds of all kinds of weeds. It persists because too much of what we call virtue is negative, and selfish, and frost-bound,—cold storage virtue,—the poor piety which terminates in a trembling anxiety to save our ...
— Joy & Power • Henry van Dyke

... Washington for your first name must be a good deal like having the Washington monument in your front yard, sort of overpowering. Of course, as Enid says—Enid's the girl, you know—a love-letter as old as that ain't of no real use. Love-letters and eggs are a good deal alike. You can keep 'em in cold storage month in and month out, but while they don't exactly spoil, they ain't the same ...
— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith

... of room for one of my own over there," she said with a forced smile. "I'll miss hearing you sing, though." She was afraid she was going to break down, but she didn't. "I'll get my things out now, so that you can have the little room for cold storage," and she motioned to the jumble which ...
— Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge • Pemberton Ginther



Words linked to "Cold storage" :   abeyance, storage, suspension



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