enginehouse
enginehouse is the alternative form of engine house.
Meaning of engine house
Noun
engine house (plural engine houses)
- A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.
- 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
- A building housing a stationary engine.
Forms of enginehouse
| plural | enginehouses |
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Questions about enginehouse
- What is enginehouse the alternative form of?
- Enginehouse is the alternative form of engine house.
Words near enginehouse in the dictionary
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