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Used to store boats
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boathouse
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A building at the edge of a river or lake in which boats are kept.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a house at edge of river or lake; used to store boats
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Although, by the time we reach the boathouse we look like refugees. ▪ At Angle in Pembrokeshire the first new slipway and boathouse to be built for 31 years is to be constructed. ▪ Finding a rugby ball, they practised drop kicks ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boathouse \Boat"house`\, n. A house for sheltering boats. Half the latticed boathouse hides. --Wordsworth.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A boathouse (or a boat house ) is a building especially designed for the storage of boats , normally smaller craft for sports or leisure use. These are typically located on open water, such as on a river . Often the boats stored are rowing boats . Other ...
Usage examples of boathouse.
So, then, the entrance ran through some sort of dam, and Haen Marn was not entirely a natural creation, no matter which world it belonged in, When he looked ahead, he could see the main island clearly, with its tall watchtower rising from a grove of wind-bent trees, and what seemed to be a long manse at its base, a cluster of small sheds round that, and then a boat dock jutting from a covered boathouse.
Down by the lake, I see Kartik leaning against the boathouse, arms crossed, watching me.
Garric, Vascay, and Hakken had come out to the boathouse to hear Metron describe his plan for releasing Thalemos from the Spike.
Squaring up to this new test of initiative Angus drove Mr Micawber to Fioneriska House and then up the North track to the boathouse.
June watched Perique go out to the car, which was facing straight toward the boathouse.
No words were needed, for Anjou and Perique were dashing madly from the boathouse, wild, fugitive figures as they dodged the headlights of their own car.
By the time we arrived at the boathouse of Il Piacere I knew I was not only over my head but beyond hope of rescue.
People skidded in mud trying to manhandle the long hook through the air and let it fall amidst the burning rafters of a boathouse.
He called after Dooly and retrieved the axolotls, and then with a last farewell, stepped ashore and disappeared around the ruined boathouse.
Mooring bollards, four in number, lined the eastern side of the boathouse.
Hutchinson that the bollards were on the starboard side of the boathouse, so that the diving-boat would be tied up on that side.
Bud pointed to a huge, kitelike object lying on its side against the wall of the boathouse.
A pair of rowers came out of the boathouse carrying a slick-looking two-man shell and entertained her with their efforts to drop the boat into the water and board it before the current could take it downstream.
The screws biting deep in maximum revs astern, took off yet another knot, but we still had a fair way on when, amid a crackling, splintering of wood, partly of our planking but mainly of the doors, and the screeching of the rubber tyres on our well-tendered bows, we stopped short with a jarring shock, firmly wedged between the port quarter of the diving-boat and the port wall of the boathouse.
Francis, where the keeper of the boathouse looked as if he thought me a fool, when I told him that I had trucked away my boat for the one I had with me.