engine house
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Depot%2C_U.S._Military_R.R.%2C_Va._%28Engine_House%29_-_NARA_-_528971.jpg/220px-Depot%2C_U.S._Military_R.R.%2C_Va._%28Engine_House%29_-_NARA_-_528971.jpg)
Noun
engine house (plural engine houses)
- A building housing one or more engines.
- (firefighting) A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.
- (rail transport) A building for housing one or more locomotives, an engine shed.
- 1944 July and August, Reginald B. Fellows, “The Failure of Bricklayers Arms as a Passenger Station—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 211:
- 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."
- A building housing a stationary engine.
References
- “engine house”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “engine house”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.