What is "boathouses"

Usage examples of "boathouses".

There were three rings of six boathouses each around her circumference, holding spaceboats as well as fliers, and mounting a gun turret on top.

Between each pair of boathouses was, alternately, a heavier rifle turret and a missile tube.

Sean landed expertly beside one of the boathouses, clamping on, and a tube snaked from its small airlock to fasten over the -flier's.

The little spacecraft bad to come back, enter the boathouses to be order the drive field's action.

They went down a companionway, through the lower level and into one of the boathouses.

Between each pair of boathouses was, alternately, a heavier rifle turret and a missile tube.

The little spacecraft bad to come back, enter the boathouses to be order the drive field's action.

I stood near the rail, on the port side, and looked at the boathouses of the different crews.

A few of the crews were bedding in Poughkeepsie hotels, but most of them were in the boathouses, in special quarters.

I looked out toward the boathouses, then let my eyes go toward the bridges and the water running beneath them.

Roland didn't know for sure, but guessed that few if any hungover drunks and wife-beaters anywhere else in Mid-World woke up to such picturesque views: a line of many-colored boathouses to the south, the docks directly below, with boys and old men line-fishing while the women mended nets and sails.

The settings were, by and large, as sordid as any of those in which addicts come together to practice their vice, but Susan and Roland didn't see the rotting walls of the shack or the holes in the roof of the hut or smell the mouldering nets in the comers of the old soaked boathouses.

Pleasure-boats were all in drydock at repair houses for the winter and wouldn't go into the boathouses until spring.

There was no reason for customs officials or constables to search boathouses in the winter.

At the rear, away from the shore and the long sea inlet, lay hump after hump of dark shapes, slave-pens, workshops, boathouses, and in dimly-sensed ranks the rows of regular barracks that housed the trusted troops of the sea-kings, the sons of Ragnar—once four, now three.