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English
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[edit]roundhouse (plural roundhouses)
- A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house. [from 15th c.]
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 137:
- [T]he gentlemen in the coffee room insisted upon the watch being called, or a constable. With considerable difficulty the two heroes were carried off to the round-house, and there lodged for the night.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 137:
- (nautical, now chiefly historical) The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship. [from 17th c.]
- Coordinate terms: wheelhouse, pilothouse
- (nautical, now historical) A privy near the bow of a vessel, especially as reserved for officers. [from 19th c.]
- Hypernym: head
- (rail transport) A circular building in which locomotives are housed, sometimes with a turntable. [from 19th c.]
- 1948 November and December, “Crewe M.P.D. to be Modernised”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
- Crewe North Motive Power Depot is to be modernised completely. This includes the provision of a new coaling plant, ash handling plant, and two new locomotive sheds of the latest roundhouse type, each with 32 roads radiating from a 70-ft. dia. turntable.
- 2020 March 25, “Network News: HS2 work uncovers oldest roundhouse”, in Rail, page 16:
- Archaeologists working on HS2 in Birmingham have uncovered the remains of what is believed to be the world's oldest railway roundhouse at Curzon Street station.
- (archaeology) A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe in the Iron Age and Bronze Age. [from 19th c.]
- Hyponym: Atlantic roundhouse
- Coordinate term: wheelhouse
- 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 66:
- A central stone slab cist containing the burial was surrounded by a circles of stones placed on edge, probably to represent the round house in which the deceased had lived.
- (chiefly US) A punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement. [from 20th c.]
- Hyponym: roundhouse kick
- (card games) In the game of pinochle, a meld consisting of a queen and king in each of the four suits.
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[edit]- (rail transport) engine shed
Translations
[edit]a circular building in which locomotives are housed
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A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe
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Verb
[edit]roundhouse (third-person singular simple present roundhouses, present participle roundhousing, simple past and past participle roundhoused)
- To punch or kick with an exaggerated sweeping movement.
- 2008 March 16, Nathaniel Fick, “Worries Over Being ‘Slimed’”, in New York Times[1]:
- We focused on the nerve-agent feint, and got roundhoused by the insurgent hook.
- 2009, Diane Tullson, Riley Park, page 18:
- I'm on my feet and my fist is roundhousing and I feel flesh. I hit again, and teeth crack under my fist. I hear voices and they're shouting and a light burns into my face.
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