American in Soho, tube heaving, gets home for eight (9)
I believe the answer is:
boathouse
'home for eight' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'american in soho tube heaving' is the wordplay.
'american' becomes 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'heaving' indicates an anagram (letters thrown or heaved around).
'soho'+'tube'='sohotube'
'sohotube' with letters rearranged gives 'bothouse'.
'a' inserted inside 'bothouse' is 'BOATHOUSE'.
'gets' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for boathouse that I've seen before include "Riverside structure" , "Bank building" , "Riverside construction" , "building by water's edge" .)