Gighouse

Quick meaning: Gighouse is a noun meaning A building for keeping a gig (horse-drawn carriage) when not in use; carriage house.

Meaning

A building for keeping a gig (horse-drawn carriage) when not in use; carriage house.

Example Sentences

The most significant exception to this is the gighouse added to the west end of the building.

In Reg. v. Coots, 2 Cox C. C. (Eng) 188, two boys were found concealed in a corn bin in an open gighouse, half a mile from the house in which the burglary was committed.

And their stout ship, rigged for Antacrctic waters, was a raft constructed from weatherboard offcuts the builders had left stacked behind the stable and gighouse, now lashed to half a dozen firmly sealed kerosene tins.

Word Forms

• gighouses
• gig-house
• gig house

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gig-house, car-house, goathouse, carhouse, carthouse, gonghouse.

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