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floathouse Pacific Coast 
n. a dwelling built on floats at the shore, and usually so built that it can be towed from one mooring to another.
See also: float (def. 3) scow-house
- 1938 Before we left Cowichan Lake though, we visited people who lived on a floathouse . . . fifty feet long, had a living-room twenty feet square, five bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, water supply. . . .
- 1958 The wrenching of its tides loosens the nails in their float-houses and their children wear lifebelts all day as insurance against its uncertain temper.
- 1965 The floathouse was of great advantage when the work took him away from base since it was necessary only to be towed by the government tug to the area under study. . . .
- 1938 Before we left Cowichan Lake though, we visited people who lived on a floathouse . . . fifty feet long, had a living-room twenty feet square, five bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, water supply. . . .