engine room

noun

a place where engines are housed, esp on a ship

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Words nearby engine room

engineer officer, engineer's chain, engine house, engineman, engine pod, engine room, enginery, engine turning, engird, engirdle, englacial

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Example sentences from the Web for engine room

When the engine-room staff heard that our pursuers had given up the chase they greeted the news with three rousing cheers.
Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion, 1916|Karl Spindler
And he gave the engine-room, by voice-pipe, a new “standard” speed, and threw the telegraph over to “Full.”
Sea-Hounds|Lewis R. Freeman
He slouched across to the speaking-tube and whistled up the engine-room, while Slyne sat watching him with sombre eyes.
The White Blackbird|Hudson Douglas
So he ascended to the engine-room and passed the cable ends to Denison, who made them securely fast to adjoining trees.
Doctor Jones' Picnic|S. E. Chapman

He called to the engine-room for the utmost speed he could have, and at nineteen knots he bore down upon the leviathan.
The World Peril of 1910|George Griffith

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