Boilerhouse

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A building containing a boiler.

    "I had to collect up all the scrawny dead birds with their swollen blind eyes, throw them into a barrow and take them to the boilerhouse for burning."

  2. 2
    The deckhouse above a ship's boiler and engine room.

Example

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"I had to collect up all the scrawny dead birds with their swollen blind eyes, throw them into a barrow and take them to the boilerhouse for burning."

Etymology

From boiler + house.

Related phrases

engine room

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