engine room
noun
a place where engines are housed, esp on a ship
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How to use engine room in a sentence
"It is n't distressingly calm now," said the extra-strong frames—they were called web-frames—in the engine-room.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingBy connections at the engine room forward bulkhead steam could be taken from any boiler in the ship.
Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' | British GovernmentIn the storerooms above the electric engine room there was one 3-inch suction.
Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' | British GovernmentOn the port side abreast the engine room, one door leading into the working passage.
Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' | British GovernmentAll the water-tight doors aft of the main engine room were opened after the collision.
Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' | British Government
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