gig house

English

Noun

gig house (plural gig houses)

  1. Alternative form of gighouse
    • 2003, Geoffrey Stell, John Shaw, Susan Storrier, Scottish Life and Society: Scotland's buildings, page 432:
      If no additional space was available, the gig house was also used to store harness for the gig and for riding horses.
    • 2012, Susan Lewis, Wicked Beauty, page 630:
      Despite the mist created by the rain, she could easily make out the two fishermen winching their boat up on to the beach, and an old woman in a headscarf, scurrying past the pub with her dog, then popping something into the letterbox that was set into the wall of the gig house.
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