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gighouse

noun

Etymology

From gig + house.

  1. inherited from husen
  2. derived from *(s)kews-✻
  3. inherited from *hūsą✻ — “house”
  4. inherited from *hūs✻
  5. inherited from hūs — “dwelling, shelter, house”
  6. inherited from hous
  7. compounded as gighouse — “gig + house”

Definitions

  1. A building for keeping a gig (horse-drawn carriage) when not in use

    A building for keeping a gig (horse-drawn carriage) when not in use; carriage house.

    • In Reg. v. Coots, 2 Cox C. C. (Eng) 188, two boys were found concealed in a corn bin in an open gighouse, half a mile from the house in which the burglary was committed.
    • The most significant exception to this is the gighouse added to the west end of the building.
    • And their stout ship, rigged for Antacrctic waters, was a raft constructed from weatherboard offcuts the builders had left stacked behind the stable and gighouse, now lashed to half a dozen firmly sealed kerosene tins.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA