Crossword clues for boathouse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boathouse \Boat"house`\, n. A house for sheltering boats.
Half the latticed boathouse hides.
--Wordsworth.
Wiktionary
n. A building at the edge of a river or lake in which boats are kept.
WordNet
n. a house at edge of river or lake; used to store boats
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 boats such as punts or small motor boats may also be stored.
Sometimes, a boathouse may be the headquarters of a boat club or rowing club. It may also include a restaurant, bar, and other leisure facilities, perhaps for members of an associated club. Boathouses are also sometimes modified to include living quarters for people, or the whole structure may be used as temporary or permanent housing.
In Scandinavia, the boathouse is known as a naust, a word deriving from Old Norse naverstað. These were typically built with stone walls and timber roofs and would be either open to the sea or provided with sturdy doors. The floors would be a simple continuation of the beach sand or rock, or they might be dug down to permit a boat to sail into the boathouse.
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.