[
UK
/bˈəʊthaʊs/
]
[ US /ˈboʊtˈhaʊs/ ]
[ US /ˈboʊtˈhaʊs/ ]
NOUN
- a shed at the edge of a river or lake; used to store boats
How To Use boathouse In A Sentence
- Sadly now the road is grid-locked most days, the factory is on the verge of closing, the picturesque view of what used to be a boathouse now appears to be a rubbish tip and no-one cares.
- The rough-hewn boards of the boathouse were grey and weathered. THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
- Raced, stumbling, skidding, along the path to the boathouse. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
- Near the boathouse was a larger display, several easels with work clearly by the same artist, the featured artist, Derek Huff, who stood bathing in the glory offered him by the people of that rural and rudimentary county. Vermilion Drift
- I loaded up my rusting fishing tackle in the back of his wife's Lexus SUV (his BMW was in the shop for a $1,000 oil change), and off we went to his boathouse, from where we set off in his 40-foot twin-screw cruiser.
- I fell into a fugue state, thinking about him, then what Grady said that night in the boathouse. LEGAL TENDER
- The crowds were one-deep, looking out across the river towards the boathouses in case anything was actually happening.
- The boathouse stood solidly on the carn thirty feet above the water, built of the same granite as the carn itself. LET NOT THE DEEP
- The cove made a fine bathing place, and the boathouse was his dressing room, though the fragrance of the ancient fish nets stored within it was not that of attar of roses. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights
- The boathouse is plumbed for running water and also has electric heating.