Fishhouse

Quick meaning: Fishhouse is a noun meaning A business located at the water's edge that provides support to fishermen and which buys and then processes and onsells their catch.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A temporary shelter belonging to an individual fisherman for use while ice fishing.
2. A restaurant that specializes in fish and seafood.
3. A business that breeds fish for aquariums, selling them either to pet shops or directly to the public.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• fishhouses
• fish house
• fish-house

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fish-house, fishworks, fishmarket, tackle house, fishmongery, fishman.

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