单词 | station house |
释义 | station housen. 1. A building in which a coastguard or coastguard service is based; a coastguard station. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > official residence > [noun] > of people in specific employment almonry1440 ferry house1595 prefecture1802 station house1805 pilothouse1812 lodging1826 schoolhouse1842 wardenry1859 adviserate1938 1805 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 1010/1 A lofty point of rock on the Western beach is occupied by a station house. 1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. v. 89 If they sent an order to all us Preventive people to vacate our station-houses and march off. 1879 W. Rye Tourist's Guide Norfolk 73 A straight cut-way leads us to the sea by the station-house at ‘Cart Gap’. 1931 A. P. Richardson Barnegat Ways i. 14 For eight miles in those days it was uninhabited except where the coast-guards' ‘station houses’ stood three miles apart. 2009 Drogheda Independent (Nexis) 4 Feb. Our old station house had problems with rodents and damp which meant we couldn't store..life-saving equipment. 2. An inn or other resting place for travellers on a long journey, esp. in a desert or other largely uninhabited area. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > lodging-place > temporary > for travellers, pilgrims, etc. > resting-place on journey baiting1477 baiting-placec1530 stage1603 post-stage1642 station1722 post station1749 station house1815 stopping-place1827 stage-stand1856 refreshment stop1880 pull-up1899 1815 R. Johnston Trav. Part Russ. Empire 395 We baited the horses at a solitary station-house, about seventeen miles from Minsk, and travelled the next stage during the night. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine i. 8 One solitary station-house and fort marks this wilderness [sc. the Desert of the Tih.] 1923 Pop. Mech. Nov. 730/1 Some ‘jambaz’ dromedaries..would go on even over the next stretch of road as far as the next station house if they were not held back. 2006 B. Ciotta Lasso Moon 55 Mr. Wiggins had left him to recover at Gila City, one of the many station houses situated along the route. 3. A building for the temporary detention of offenders, attached to or under the jurisdiction of a police station (now historical). Later also: a police station. Now chiefly North American. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > place of detention or lock-up > attached to police-station station house1829 society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police office or station > foreign thana1803 Questura1852 kotwalee1854 station house1870 precinct1894 precinct station1902 gendarmerie1945 kotwali1964 precinct house1968 precinct station house1979 1829 Times 7 Oct. 2/4 A new Station-house for the metropolitan police was opened yesterday in Great Scotland Yard. 1854 John Bull 1 July 411 Whallor was actually taken by a policeman to the station-house, the real criminal accompanying them, as witness. 1870 Galaxy Feb. 272 An headquarters of police..is called in New York a station-house. 1900 Northwestern Reporter 83 1023/2 The answer of respondent denies that any designation of separate departments of the station house for the detention of women and children has been made. 1931 H. 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. 1999 J. Vadackumchery Indian Police & Equal Justice under Law vii. 160 There exists little or no transparency in police work at the station house level. 2006 K. Burke & N. Hirschfeld Detective vii. 78 On the way back to the station house, I could hear the two cops talking about me. 4. The administrative building of a railway station; esp. that of a small country station. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station station1830 station house1833 train depot1833 railway station1836 railroad station1837 depot1842 rail station1848 rail1850 train station1856 gare1870 society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > other types stopping station1840 way station1840 flag-station1852 by-station1864 transfer station1869 junction1876 stationette1891 station house1891 halt1910 stub station1916 ghost station1928 whistle-stop1934 parkway1972 1833 Ann. Reg. 1832 ii. Chron. 163/2 The engine of the advancing train..was driven with tremendous violence against the station-house at the side of the road. 1850 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 5 May in Amer. Notebks. (1972) viii. 488 It [sc. the train] dashes along in front of the Station-house and comes to a pause. 1891 ‘J. S. Winter’ Lumley ii. 13 When Jock Airlie and the painter came out of the little station-house, they found [etc.]. 1949 Billboard 12 Nov. 60/1 The Foleys and O'Brien will be permitted to erect a Miniature Train, station house and track. 1992 Holiday Which? Jan. 31/1 The Alford Valley Railway Museum.., in a former station house, describes the impact made on Donside by the arrival of the railway. 5. Australian and New Zealand. The main residence on a station (station n. 8); (also) a building for the accommodation of the station workers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmstead > [noun] > farmhouse grangec1300 farmhouse1533 farm1583 hall-house1603 station house1840 homestead1849 ranch house1859 1840 Sydney Herald 31 Aug. 6/7 We have since heard that the sheep were not above a mile from the station-house. 1888 A. McKay in Bull. N.Z. Geol. Surv. No. 1. 4 The station-house was so far wrecked. 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 234 Uncle Timothy, the sole representative of the nobler sex who could keep these ladies company at the deserted station-house. 1933 L. G. D. Acland in Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 4 Nov. 15/7 Men's hut, house where the station hands live. On some stations it is called the station house. 2009 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 23 Nov. 3 The eagle showed up, defeated, at the back door of a station house outside Broken Hill last week. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1805 |
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