boathousenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbəʊt.haʊs/us/ˈboʊt.haʊs/a small building at the side of a river or lake, in which boats are kept
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Ports & docks
- anchorage
- basin
- breakwater
- derrick
- dockland
- dockyard
- free port
- harbour
- harbour master
- hoverport
- jetty
- marina
- pier
- pierhead
- port
- sea wall
- seaport
- slip
- terminal
- the dockside
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Buildings for storing things
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- Early the next afternoon Brown descended the path to the boathouse.
- He waded to the shore and strode rapidly back toward the boathouse.
- Stable lofts and old boathouses along the shore blossomed into studios.
- The boathouse was a little building on the beach at the foot of the bluff below the house.
- There isn't a boathouse or fisherman's hut nearer than two miles.