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station house

noun

station house

a house that is situated by or serves as a station, esp as a police or fire station

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First recorded in 1825–35

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He was handcuffed and taken to a nearby station house; he was later released without charges.

They had now reached the colliery, and went into the station-house, which stood at the corner of the branch railroad.

In his joy he had made one bound from the station-house across the rails and had rushed up the coal-hill.

The box car that served as a station house—always an object of the heaviest drifts—was buried!

I told him then of what he had discovered at the station house near by, and added the caution not to mention it about the camp.

Major Ross awaited the two men in a large, bare-walled room on the second floor of the station house.

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