Meaning of snow-porch | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“This has now been remedied by enclosing the hatchway within a commodious snow-porch; and, instead of the steam and vapour of the inhabited deck being condensed into moisture about the hatchway as heretofore, it now meets the downward rush⟳ of cold air in the porch, and is there converted into minute particles of snow⟳; this porch also diminishes the escape⟳ of heat.”

“Some days of gales there were, when Panig-pah had to lie⟳ up in the igloo, the world beyond its inner circle being a blinding, smothering fog of flying snow⟳ ; the dogs, sheltered in the snow-porch, curled up and resting.”

“She had scarcely stepped through the snow-porch, when she returned and reported that a big white bear⟳ was fighting the dogs.”

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