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gig-house

gig-house is the alternative form of gighouse.

Meaning of gighouse

Noun

gighouse (plural gighouses)

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

Forms of gig-house

pluralgig-houses

Questions about gig-house

What is gig-house the alternative form of?
Gig-house is the alternative form of gighouse.

Words near gig-house in the dictionary

  1. gig worker
  2. gig workers
  3. gig works
  4. gig-goer
  5. gig-goers
  6. gig-house
  7. gig-houses
  8. gig-lamp
  9. gig-lamps
  10. gig-mill
  11. gig-mills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gig-house (page history and authors); gighouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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