fish house
- noun
- /fɪʃ haʊs/
:
pescadería
- Inside the fish house, workers were busy processing the freshly caught fish for distribution.
Examples
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She'd wrestled the thing by herself down the dock and had it chopped up at a fish house.
Fiction book (1995) -
The fishermen took their catch to the fish house to clean and store it for the market.
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Many locals visit the fish house to buy fresh seafood straight from the docks.
Synonyms
53
3.4
A place where people catch and prepare fish to sell
10
3.1
A building where goods are kept for later use
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5.2
A small building where people cure meat or fish with smoke
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Morphology
The sense 'a shelter used for fishing' is directly and compositionally built from 'fish' + 'house' as a noun compound meaning a house related to fishing. Even though the supplied definitions are somewhat narrow (fish as food; house as a firm), the common senses 'fish' (animal/act of fishing) and 'house' (building/shelter) make this meaning immediately inferable to a B1 learner; comparable compounds exist cross-linguistically.
Etymology
Fish house comes from the simple image of a house where fish are brought to be cleaned and kept. So it means 'a building where fish are cleaned, prepared, stored, or sold'.