Meaning

A business located at the water's edge that provides support to fishermen and which buys and then processes and onsells their catch..

Definitions by Sense

1. A business located at the water's edge that provides support to fishermen and which buys and then processes and onsells their catch.
2. A temporary shelter belonging to an individual fisherman for use while ice fishing.
3. A restaurant that specializes in fish and seafood.
4. A business that breeds fish for aquariums, selling them either to pet shops or directly to the public.

Example Sentences

It is in the fishhouse where the fishermen gather in the morning to exchange news about the weather, tides, the price of seafood, about one another and about the people who live in Mullet Springs.

Often they did not know until that morning whether a particular fishhouse had work.

Stumpy Point, a small town on the east side of Stumpy Point Bay, has a fishhouse where gasoline, diesel fuel, and water are available;

It shows the receipts and expenses for each day that Frank sells to the fishhouse. The fishhouse charges for items such as ice and oil are included on the ticket and Frank receives the net payment (income minus expenses).

Those who expect to fish in real winter weather must have a little stove in the fishhouse.

Everyone in town, E. A. Walter, president of the Glei wood State Bank, to the last median at the Soo Line Railroad roundhouse seems to own a fishhouse.

A person may erect, have, or maintain on the ice in any waters of this state a fishhouse, used or to be used while ice fishing, or a dark house, used or to be used for spearfishing

Chesapeake is a California version of an East Coast fishhouse, but more comfortable and sophisticated.

Word Forms

• fishhouses
• fish house
• fish-house

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