fish-house

English

Noun

fish-house (plural fish-houses)

  1. Alternative form of fishhouse
    • 1838, William Leete Stone, Life of Joseph Brant--Thayendanegea:
      From this place they proceeded across the great marsh to Sir William Johnson's fish-house, on the Sacondaga, capturing a man named Martin, and another named Harris, on the way, and at the fish-house taking a brave fellow named Solomon Woodworth and four others.
    • 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, page 150:
      Early the next moming I walked into a fish-house near our hotel, where three or four men were engaged in trundling out the pickled fish on barrows, and spreading them to dry.
    • 2014, Harold Dieterle, Andrew Friedman, Harold Dieterle's Kitchen Notebook:
      I worked there for two summers, during which I confirmed that this career path was for me, and expanded my notebook with some vintage fish-house recipes, such as for crab cakes.
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