gighouse

English

Alternative forms

• gig-house, gig house

Etymology

gig +‎ house

Noun

gighouse (plural gighouses)

1. A building for keeping a gig (horse-drawn carriage) when not in use; carriage house.
   • 1911, The American and English Annotated Cases, page 1287:

     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.

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

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

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

     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.