gig house

gig house (plural gig houses)

1. Alternative form of gighouse
   • 2003, Geoffrey Stell, John Shaw, Susan Storrier, Scottish Life and Society: Scotland's buildings, page 432:

     If no additional space was available, the gig house was also used to store harness for the gig and for riding horses.

   • 2012, Susan Lewis, Wicked Beauty, page 630:

     Despite the mist created by the rain, she could easily make out the two fishermen winching their boat up on to the beach, and an old woman in a headscarf, scurrying past the pub with her dog, then popping something into the letterbox that was set into the wall of the gig house.