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station-house
1. The house provided for a coastguardsman at his station. rare.
1833H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. v. 89 If they sent an order to all us Preventive people to vacate our station-houses and march off.
2. The lock-up attached to a police-station; the police-station itself. Now chiefly U.S.
1836Dickens Sk. Boz, Visit to Newgate, Tell them of hunger and the streets,..the station-house, and the pawn⁓broker's, and they will understand you. 1854John Bull 1 July 411 Whallor was actually taken by a policeman to the station-house, the real criminal accompanying them, as witness. 1867A. J. Wilson Vashti xxxiv, Watchman McDonough..picked up, on the sidewalk, the insensible body of Maurice Carlyle, who showed some signs of returning animation after his removal to Station House No. ―. 1870Galaxy Feb. 272 An headquarters of police..is called in New York a station-house, though in many other places this word is more correctly used to indicate a stopping house on railroads. 1931H. F. Pringle Theodore Roosevelt i. xi. 138 He arrived..at a station house in the lower part of the city, and interrupted the meditations of the sergeant. 1963Listener 4 Apr. 585/1, I began my police career in June, 1951. After three months' training I was assigned to the W.54th Street station house. 1979Honolulu Advertiser 8 Jan. d1/4 2,000 Hasidic Jews stormed a Brooklyn police station-house.
3. A railway station; now only, a small country station.
1838Times 5 June 5/1 The station-house close to Maidenhead shows the terminus. 1846Mrs. Gore Engl. Char. 320 How different from the flashy gaudiness of a station-house albergo! 1850Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1868) II. 199 It [the train] dashes along in front of the station-house, and comes to a pause. 1891‘J. S. Winter’ Lumley ii, When Jock Airlie and the painter came out of the little station-house, they found [etc.].
4. A building at which travellers halt in crossing the desert. ? nonce-use.
1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. i. (1858) One solitary station⁓house and fort marks this wilderness [the Desert of the Tih.]
5. Austral. and N.Z. The house belonging to a station.
1888A. McKay in Bull. N.Z. Geol. Survey No. 1. 4 The station-house was so far wrecked. 1894H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Rom. 234 Uncle Timothy, the sole representative of the nobler sex who could keep these ladies company at the deserted station-house. 1933L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch) 4 Nov. 15/7 Men's hut, house where the station hands live. On some stations it is called the station house. |