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ˈfire-house
[f. as prec. Cf. ON. eldhús.]
a. A house with a fireplace in it, as distinguished from the out-buildings. Obs. exc. dial. Sometimes, † the particular room in which the family fire was.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 184/26 Caminatum, fyrhus. 1530Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 292 Every fyer howse wt in the parishing of Acclome. 1632in S. O. Addy Hall of Waltheof (1893) 182 note, The Hall or Fierhouse of the now mansion house of the said John Parker. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. (1646) i. 237 Ive (or Ine)..granted to the pope, that every Fire-house within his Kingdome should yearly pay him a peny. 1680in N. & Q. 3rd Ser. (1866) IX. 452/1 All that ancient Messuage or Firehouse wherein one C.M. now dwelleth. 1878Cumberld. Gloss., Fire-house, the dwelling—in contradistinction to the outbuildings.
b. U.S. (Now usu. as one word.) = fire station s.v. fire n. 5.
1901Rep. Fire Dept. N.Y. 1900 6 A number of sites for new fire-houses..have been acquired. 1902Scribner's Mag. Oct. 452/1 Our American fire-houses compare favorably with those in Europe. 1945Sat. Rev. 7 July 21/1 Sometimes it's as elevated as the conversation in back of the firehouse in Salem, Ohio. 1961[see bong]. 1979R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) ii. xi. 296 ‘What's it like in the firehouse?’..‘Like an army barracks.’ 1984New Yorker 18 June 76/2 Firemen in Washington, D.C., were growing it [sc. corn]..in vacant lots next to their firehouses. |