Definition of "baggage-room" [baggage-room]

• A room at a railway-station, steamship-pier, or the like, where baggage is received, registered, dated, checked, etc. (noun)
• A room where baggage may be left until called for, a receipt or number being given. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It meant more strange men who handled baggage, as it meant in New York, where, from railroad baggage-room to express wagon he was exchanged, for ever a crated prisoner and dispatched to one, Harris Collins, on Long Island."
• "Because Del Mar brought it into the baggage-room, Michael was suspicious of it."
• "They dashed in on Tom Porter, sitting in the despatcher's office upstairs, while the despatcher was hiding below, under a loose plank in the baggage-room floor."