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名詞

engine house (複数形 engine houses)

1. A building housing one or more engines.
   1. (firefighting) A building for housing a fire engine, a firehouse or fire station.
   2. (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."