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waterhouse en · NOUN

Etymology

From water + house.

Meanings

1. A house on floats.
   • We'd live in a waterhouse. Not a houseboat. I didn't want any hint of the “B” word. A waterhouse is a home that floats. 2001 January, David Seidman, “An Offshore Address”, in Boating, volume 74, number 1, page 36:
   • People build embankments and dams, construct waterhouses, establish channels and canals, found power plant and so on to avoid flood, irrigate, supply water, ship and generate electricity. 2009 September, XG Zhang, FR Ma, NP Yi, CJ Ling, “An Ancient Hydraulic Engineering: Safety Running of LingQu Canal, Guangxi in China and Its Thought of Environmental Geotechnical Engineering”, in International Conference on Management and Service Science:
   • The floating waterhouses allow residents to live a nomadic life. 2005, Ilan Kelman, “Floods should not mean disasters”, in Building Research & Information, volume 33, number 3:

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