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fish house 
1 Maritimes a shore building where offshore fishermen store gear and sometimes cure their fish.
See also: fishing shack fish shed store (def. 2)
- 1934 In one spot are numerous little fish-houses with fishing paraphernalia galore and infinitely more lobster pots than could be seen by most people in a lifetime.
- 1963 On the exposed Digby Neck . . . towering waves . . . poured over the village's tiny breakwater, tearing boats from their moorings and smashing over fish houses on the shore.
2 North a shack for storing dried fish.
See also: dried fish
- 1934 The third building was the fish house in which were a few sticks of frozen fish for dog-feed.
- 1934 In one spot are numerous little fish-houses with fishing paraphernalia galore and infinitely more lobster pots than could be seen by most people in a lifetime.