Definition of "engine-house" [engine-house]

• A building for the accommodation of an engine or engines. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Behind them, on the other two rows of seats, she could make out firemen from the near-by engine-house and several policemen in uniform."
• "I'd listened in growing consternation, for there was no doubt what was coming, thanks to the blind stubborn folly (aye, and vanity) of that pig-headed yokel - the besiegers would storm the engine-house, their first ranks would be cut down by the defenders 'fire, and when the drunken rabble finally burst in by sheer weight of numbers they'd butcher every last one of us in a fury of spite and vengeance."
• "That had been less than a year ago, and here I was like a rat in a pit awaiting the terriers ... and around me the blackness was fading to grey, figures and objects were coming into view in the dim interior of the engine-house, and in the distance a cock was crowing."