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scow-house
Pacific coast
n.
a kind of floathouse.
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floathouse
1924
 
Skookum Charlie was an Indian boy of the Lillooet tribe, who had been sent by his father to live with an uncle residing in a scow-house on the waterfront of Vancouver.