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engine houses

engine houses is the plural of engine house.

Meaning of engine house

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.

Questions about engine houses

What is engine houses the plural of?
Engine houses is the plural of engine house.

Words near engine houses in the dictionary

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

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