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tacklehouses

tacklehouses is the plural of tacklehouse.

Meaning of tacklehouse

Noun

tacklehouse (plural tacklehouses)

  1. A building located at a port, and the corresponding business operated by one of the major shipping companies, that employs porters to load and unload goods from ships.
    • The under beadle, Philip Huffa, was to be accommodated with lodgings above the tacklehouse, and the Company's cellars were built in beneath it.1977, Anne Crawford, A history of the Vintners' Company, page 167

Questions about tacklehouses

What is tacklehouses the plural of?
Tacklehouses is the plural of tacklehouse.

Words near tacklehouses in the dictionary

  1. tackleboxes
  2. tackled
  3. tacklee
  4. tacklees
  5. tacklehouse
  6. tacklehouses
  7. tackleless
  8. tackleman
  9. tacklemen
  10. tackler
  11. tacklers

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