Other forms: boathouses
A boathouse is a shed at the water's edge for keeping boats. The club boathouse, moor by the boathouse, a wooden boathouse.
It usually stands half over the water so a boat can be floated straight in, and a rowing club's boathouse holds the racks of long eights that will not fit anywhere else. Many old ones are now listed buildings or converted into houses.
1nounboathouseA shed at the water's edge for keeping boats.
“They kept the rowing boat in a wooden boathouse at the edge of the lake.”
boathouse is a building.
Boat plus house. Boat is Old English bat, and the compound is recorded from the sixteenth century.
From boat + house.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA