waterhouse

See also: Waterhouse

English

Etymology

water +‎ house

Noun

waterhouse (plural waterhouses)

1. A house on floats.
   • 2001 January, David Seidman, “An Offshore Address”, in Boating, volume 74, number 1, page 36:

     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.

   • 2005, Ilan Kelman, “Floods should not mean disasters”, in Building Research & Information, volume 33, number 3:

     The floating waterhouses allow residents to live a nomadic life.

   • 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:

     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.