A railway station.

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1836.  I arrived at the Depot of the Boston and Providence Railroad.—Boston Pearl, Jan. 23.

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1837.  Let any on ye come over to the Black Rock Rail-road Dee-pott, and I’ll lick him like a d—n!—Knick. Mag., ix. 68 (Jan.).

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1842.  To borrow the expression of a fellow-traveller, we were “ticketed through to the depot” (pronouncing the last word so as to rhyme with teapot), and carriages were in waiting.—Longfellow, ‘Life’ (1891), i. 415. (N.E.D.)

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1848.  Ther was a considerable bustle and fuss about the depo, gettin’ reddy to start.—W. T. Thompson, ‘Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel,’ p. 28 (Phila.).

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1848.  The depo was so close that I jest fit my way through the hack drivers to the cars, without any serious accidents.—Id., p. 57.

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1848.  When the cars got to the depo, they was surrounded as usual by a regiment of whips.—Id., p. 83.

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1848.  Our victim struck a bee-line for the Providence Depot, reaching it just as the cars were ready to go out.—Durivage and Burnham, ‘Stray Subjects,’ p. 65.

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1849.  Wal, they was tellin’ of it [the story] down to the dee-pot.—Knick. Mag., xxxiv. 86 (July).

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1852.  

        Vanity of vanities,
  Climax of vexation,
Waiting for the cars
  At a rail-road station:
Thinking every moment
  That the train will go,
Worrying out an hour
  In a small dépôt!
‘The Rhyme of the Dépôt,’ Id., xl. 315 (Oct.).    

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1855.  

        As a crowd that near a dépôt stands,
  Impatiently waiting to take the cars,
Will ‘clear a track’ when its iron bands
  The ponderous, fiery hippogriff jars:
Yet the moment it stops do n’t care a pin,
But hustle and bustle and go right in;
So the half of the band that still survives
Comes up, with long moustaches and knives,
Determined to mince the Captain to chowder,
So soon as it ’s known he is out of powder.
F. S. Cozzens, ‘Captain Davis: A Californian Ballad,’ Id., xlv. 336–7 (April).    

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1855.  I went to the Rail Road Depot with a carriage next night.—Waverly Magazine, n.d.

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1856.  He had foreseen Mr. Blodget’s objections to the location of the dépôt, but there was always some compensation in submitting to the public good.—Knick. Mag., xlvii. 60 (Jan.).

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1857.  I rode in the stage to the dépôt, and said to the stage-driver to stop.—Id., xlix. 103 (Jan.).

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1861.  

        Ourn ’s the fust thru-by-daylight train, with all ou’doors for deepot;
Yourn goes so slow you ’d think ’t wuz drawed by a las’ cent’ry teapot.
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ 2nd Series, No. 1.    

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1866.  Depots were the centre of space, converging lines from every point of the compass made tracks to the offices of railroad superintendents.—C. H. Smith, ‘Bill Arp,’ p. 98.

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