Dict.). (h) (Mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the
accomodation 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.
R. Nelson. 5. Situation; position; location.
The fig and date — why love they to remain
In middle station, and an even plain?
Prior. 6. State; rank; condition of life; social status.
The greater part have kept, I see,
Their station.
Milton.
They in France of the best rank and station.
Shak. 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. Addis & Arnold. (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. Fairholt.
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.
Craig.
Syn. — 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.
Station
(Sta"tion) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stationed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Stationing.] To place; to set; to appoint
or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to
station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.
He gained the brow of the hill, where the English phalanx was stationed.
Lyttelton.
