Refrigerator = jail?

[James Smith]

Actually, I should have known this.  I was thinking
too small.  Railroad cars cooled by ice, "iceboxes on
wheels", were known as refigerator cars at least as
far back as the 1850's.


--- Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> The OED implies yes.
>
> JL
>
> James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
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> So ice-boxes were commonly called refrigerators in
> the
> 19th century?


James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.



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