fish shed

Maritimes

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a shore building where offshore fishermen store gear and sometimes cure their fish.

See: fish house(def. 1)

Quotations

1956

And then . . . you saw those . . . gray weathered cottages and fish sheds, the small wharves and stagings. . . .