fish-house

plural fish-houses

1. alternativeAlternative form of fishhouse.

   Early the next moming I walked into a fish-house near our hotel, where three or four men were engaged in trundling out the pickled fish on barrows, and spreading them to dry.

   1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, page 150

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   From this place they proceeded across the great marsh to Sir William Johnson's fish-house, on the Sacondaga, capturing a man named Martin, and another named Harris, on the way, and at the fish-house taking a brave fellow named Solomon Woodworth and four others.

   1838, William Leete Stone, Life of Joseph Brant--Thayendanegea

   I worked there for two summers, during which I confirmed that this career path was for me, and expanded my notebook with some vintage fish-house recipes, such as for crab cakes.

   2014, Harold Dieterle, Andrew Friedman, Harold Dieterle's Kitchen Notebook