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Boathouse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A building at the water's edge in which boats are kept.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A building at the edge of a river or lake in which boats are kept.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A house for sheltering boats.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A house or shed for storing boats and protecting them from the weather.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a shed at the edge of a river or lake; used to store boats

Word Usage

"Although nothing in bass fishing lds true every time, several considerations help narrow the choices of which boathouse is most likely to hold bass: l Older boathouses and docks generally have more fish than newer ones."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

shed

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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