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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
engine house en · NOUN
Meanings
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A building housing one or more engines. ▸ A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.
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A building housing one or more engines. ▸ 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:
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A building housing one or more engines. ▸ A building housing a stationary engine.
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