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Station house   /stˈeɪʃən haʊs/   Listen
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Station  n.  
1.
The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture. (R.) "A station like the herald, Mercury." "Their manner was to stand at prayer, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose... had the names of stations given them."
2.
A state of standing or rest; equilibrium. (Obs.) "All progression is performed by drawing on or impelling forward some part which was before in station, or at quiet."
3.
The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel. Specifically:
(a)
A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.
(b)
The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.
(c)
The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.
(d)
(Biol.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
(e)
(Naut.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.
(f)
A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
(g)
(Mil.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive or defensive measures..
(h)
(Mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
4.
Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment. "By spending this day (Sunday) in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following."
5.
Situation; position; location. "The fig and date why love they to remain In middle station, and an even plain?"
6.
State; rank; condition of life; social status. "The greater part have kept, I see, Their station." "They in France of the best rank and station."
7.
(Eccl.)
(a)
The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
(b)
(R. C. Ch.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
(c)
One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; called also Station of the cross.
8.
In Australia, a sheep run or cattle run, together with the buildings belonging to it; also, the homestead and buildings belonging to such a run.
Station bill. (Naut.) Same as Quarter bill, under Quarter.
Station house.
(a)
The house serving for the headquarters of the police assigned to a certain district, and as a place of temporary confinement.
(b)
The house used as a shelter at a railway station.
Station master, one who has charge of a station, esp. of a railway station.
Station pointer (Surv.), an instrument for locating on a chart the position of a place from which the angles subtended by three distant objects, whose positions are known, have been observed.
Station staff (Surv.), an instrument for taking angles in surveying.
Synonyms: Station, Depot. In the United States, a stopping place on a railway for passengers and freight is commonly called a depot: but to a considerable extent in official use, and in common speech, the more appropriate name, station, has been adopted.





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"Station house" Quotes from Famous Books



... nearly got. Kelly's nightstick got his pneumonia gas jet, or whatever you call it. He's still quiet, in the station house—You know old man Van Cleft, who owns sky-scrapers down town, don't you?—Well, he's the center of this flying wedge of excitement. His family are fine people, I understand. His daughter was to be married ...
— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball
... O'Hara strolled through Lafayette Square and spied two Weary Willies disgracin' one of the benches. In ten minutes more J. Clancy and General De Vega, late candidate for the presidency of Guatemala, was in the station house. The general is badly frightened, and calls upon me to ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry
... their tools piled in heaps. While Corrigan watched, the laborers descended from the cars and swarmed toward their quarters—a row of tent-houses near the siding. A big man—Corrigan knew him later as Patrick Carson—swung down from the engine-cab and lumbered toward the little frame station house, in a window of which the telegrapher could be seen, idly scanning a week-old newspaper. Carson spoke shortly to the telegrapher, at which the latter motioned toward the bank building and the private car. Then Carson came toward the bank building. An instant later, Carson came in the front ...
— 'Firebrand' Trevison • Charles Alden Seltzer
... fallen are still human, and that, as guardians of the peace, they are bound to yet be merciful while discharging their duties? I have heard of more than one instance where men, and even women, were treated on and before arriving at the station house as no decent man would treat a dog. Such policemen are decidedly more interested in the extra pay they get on each arrest than in serving the best interests of the community. Many a poor man has been arrested when slightly intoxicated, and driven to desperation by ...
— Fifteen Years in Hell • Luther Benson
... was absolutely no obstacle in Bateato's way until he reached the station house, and the only obstacle he encountered there was a serious impediment in ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie
... to the station house and tried to get Wilbur out, but the police were so rude that I had to tell them where to get off, and they threatened to ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey
... will consent to desert you after that confession?" I questioned, almost indignant. "I would be a brute to do so. You saved me from arrest just now; for me to have been taken to the station house and searched would have put me in a bad hole. It was your wit that saved me, and now I am going to stay and help you. I 'll not leave you alone here in the street at this hour ...
— Gordon Craig - Soldier of Fortune • Randall Parrish
... reached Volovya station. Ivan got out of the carriage, and the drivers stood round him bargaining over the journey of twelve versts to Tchermashnya. He told them to harness the horses. He went into the station house, looked round, glanced at the overseer's wife, and suddenly went back to ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky


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