boathouse

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a building beside or over water in which boats and boating equipment are kept

   The rowing team stored its shells in the boathouse beside the river.

A transparent English compound of boat + house, attested from the eighteenth century. Some boathouses serve only as storage sheds, while larger examples also provide workshops or club facilities.

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