A building at the edge of a river, lake or other body of water in which boats are kept.
Used in a Sentence
boathouse
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for boathouse.
Editorial note
I was a Femmes fan, saw them in 1989 promoting 3 in a tiny venue called The Boathouse that literally was a small converted boathouse.
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Quick take
A building at the edge of a river, lake or other body of water in which boats are kept.
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Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for boathouse.
noun
A building at the edge of a river, lake or other body of water in which boats are kept.
Example sentences
I was a Femmes fan, saw them in 1989 promoting 3 in a tiny venue called The Boathouse that literally was a small converted boathouse.
The lake was so high that it pushed the ski boat to the top of the boathouse.
And in Ronin when Deniro asks Sean Bean the color of the boathouse at Hereford.
A somewhat speculative example from oz: go take a floating house (boathouse?), at the mouth of Murray river (or at other end, all the same).
What is the color of the boathouse at Hereford?
Buffalo has a trove of FLW treasures: his boathouse, gas station, mausoleum, Martin house, Graycliff.
If people could easily walk to the grocery store, or bicycle to the dentist, or ride a bus to their office, your trip to the boathouse would be ever so much easier.
Not the person you're asking, but I found out about The Loose Handle Band[0] when they were rehearsing with a temporary bassist out by the boathouse on Jamaica Pond in Boston.
At least Ray's Boathouse still is holding onto rays.com, so I can enjoy tidbits like this[2]: > It's been at least a decade since the MLB has asked to purchase Rays.com.
> [On] 23rd August 1994, the chaotic music duo and performance artists Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty burned £1m of notes behind a boathouse on the Scottish island of Jura.
I have known people in Washington, DC, who lived with a quarter mile of a hiker/biker path in Rock Creek Park, and would drive ~7 miles to Fletcher's Boathouse (or 10 to Carderock) to run on the C&O Canal towpath.
Other than a single water bubbler at the BU boathouse, that only went in a couple of years ago, there isn’t a single place to get a drink (let alone buy one or get a snack) the entire 4+ mile length of the river in Cambridge from the Museum of Science to the Elliot St.
Quote examples
If you want a house/flat/skyscraper/boathouse dropdown, reference the "house" icon.
Now that kids cannot interpret similar words at all (ex: house, boat, houseboat, boathouse), now they're bringing phonics as "science of reading".
"Yea yea yea he's an asshole, but I got to go to his boathouse!"
"Hot take" is becoming common parlance, but a hot take as defined by Blind Boy Boathouse would be a connection you notice between two seemingly unrelated things, and then dive into to arrive at a smashing observation about, where you link those things by obsessively researching the connections between them, to reveal a hot take on events that no one has quite heard of, or had the same take on before.
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How do you use boathouse in a sentence?
I was a Femmes fan, saw them in 1989 promoting 3 in a tiny venue called The Boathouse that literally was a small converted boathouse.
What does boathouse mean?
A building at the edge of a river, lake or other body of water in which boats are kept.
What part of speech is boathouse?
boathouse is commonly used as noun.