MEANING
A building used to store or shelter boats, often beside or over water.
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- lakeside boathouse
- boathouse doors
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The boathouse stood at the lake’s edge.
They pulled the canoe into the boathouse.
The boathouse doors opened directly onto the water.
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- boathouse
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular boathouse; plural boathouses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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