boilerhouse

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noun

A building containing a boiler.

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Meanings

nounboilerhouse (plural boilerhouses)

plural boilerhouses

  1. A building containing a boiler.

    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.

    2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 23, in Small Island, London: Review, page 244
  2. nauticalThe deckhouse above a ship's boiler and engine room.

Origin

From boiler + house.

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APA

boilerhouse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boilerhouse

MLA

“boilerhouse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boilerhouse. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boilerhouse,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boilerhouse.

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