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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 — Maritimes
a shore building where offshore fishermen store gear and sometimes cure their fish.
Quotations
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: dried fish
Quotations
1934
The third building was the fish house in which were a few sticks of frozen fish for dog-feed.