engine company
noun
a unit of a city's fire department in command of one or more fire-fighting vehicles.
Origin of engine company
1An Americanism dating back to 1810–20
Words Nearby engine company
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How to use engine company in a sentence
The flag this morning flies at half-staff in front of engine company 224 in Brooklyn.
With the Fireman of Brooklyn’s Company 224 as They Observe the Fallen | Maurice Emerson Decaul | September 12, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA few members of Casey's fire engine company paid him final honors.
Port O' Gold | Louis John StellmanThe outbreak arose from a clash between a funeral procession and a fire-engine company.
The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace | Frederick Morse CutlerThey had begun their history many years previously as a fire-engine company, and in 1832 had taken up military training.
The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace | Frederick Morse CutlerHenry Merrill had secured the engine company's large flag in Alton, and now carried it proudly.
A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches | Sarah Orne Jewett
The congregation thought too much of it in 1848 to allow its use by engine company 42 for fire alarms.
The Kirk on Rutgers Farm | Frederick Brckbauer
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