gighouse

plural gighouses · alternative gig-house · alternative gig house

1. A building for keeping a gig (horse-drawn carriage) when not in use; carriage house.

   The most significant exception to this is the gighouse added to the west end of the building.

   2013, John Steane, James Ayres, Traditional Buildings in the Oxford Region, page 298

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   In Reg. v. Coots, 2 Cox C. C. (Eng) 188, two boys were found concealed in a corn bin in an open gighouse, half a mile from the house in which the burglary was committed.

   1911, The American and English Annotated Cases, page 1287

   And their stout ship, rigged for Antacrctic waters, was a raft constructed from weatherboard offcuts the builders had left stacked behind the stable and gighouse, now lashed to half a dozen firmly sealed kerosene tins.

   2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 24