boilerhouse
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]boilerhouse (plural boilerhouses)
- A building containing a boiler.
- Coordinate term: boiler room
- 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 23, in Small Island[1], London: Review, page 244:
- I had to collect up all the scrawny dead birds with their swollen blind eyes, throw them into a barrow and take them to the boilerhouse for burning.
- (nautical) The deckhouse above a ship's boiler and engine room.