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See also: Waterhouse
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]waterhouse (plural waterhouses)
- 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.