waterhouse

plural waterhouses

1. A house on floats.

   The floating waterhouses allow residents to live a nomadic life.

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

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   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.

   2001 January, David Seidman, “An Offshore Address”, in Boating, volume 74, number 1, page 36

   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.

   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

1. A surname.

   Nature reserves officer Paul Waterhouse said: "It's absolutely amazing, I never contemplated there might be a third or a fourth nest."

   2026 August 22, Tom MacDougall, “Osprey chick record rises at nature reserve”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2026, retrieved 03 Sep 2026

2. A rural locality in Dorset local government area, north-east Tasmania, Australia.