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engine house

engine house noun: a building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.

engine house: a building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station
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Noun

engine house (plural engine houses)

  1. A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.
  2. A building for housing one or more locomotives, an engine shed.
    • Of locomotive interest was "an engine house for spare engines which was about 60 ft. × 51 ft.; on the outside of this was an immense turntable sufficient to turn the engine and tender at once."1944 July and August, Reginald B. Fellows, “The Failure of Bricklayers Arms as a Passenger Station—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 211
  3. A building housing a stationary engine.

Forms of engine house

pluralengine houses

Questions about engine house

What does engine house mean?
Engine house means a building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.
What part of speech is engine house?
Engine house is a noun.
What is the plural of engine house?
The plural of engine house is engine houses.

Words near engine house in the dictionary

  1. engine drivers
  2. engine generator
  3. engine generators
  4. engine hour
  5. engine hours
  6. engine house
  7. engine houses
  8. engine knock
  9. engine lathe
  10. engine lathes
  11. engine mount

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