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Meaning of engine house | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A building housing one or more engines.
  2. A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.
  3. A building for housing one or more locomotives, an engine shed.
  4. A building housing a stationary engine.

Examples

“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."”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

engine lathe engine mount engine move engine oil engine order telegraph engine room

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