Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A circular building for housing and switching locomotives.
- n. Nautical A cabin on the after part of the quarterdeck of a ship.
- n. Games A meld of four kings and four queens in pinochle.
- n. Slang A punch or swing delivered with a sweeping sidearm movement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A lockup; a station-house; a watch-house.
- n. Nautical: A cabin or apartment on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof: formerly sometimes called the coach; also, the poop itself.
- n. An erection abaft the mainmast for the accommodation of the officers or crew of a vessel.
- n. On American railroads, a building, usually round and built of brick, having stalls for the storage of locomotives, with tracks leading from them to a central turn-table. In Great Britain called engine-house or engine-shed.
- n. A privy.
Wiktionary
- n. A circular building in which locomotives are housed.
- n. A punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement.
- n. An Iron Age dwelling.
- n. The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.
- n. A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the
coach . - n. A privy near the bow of the vessel.
- n. A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.
WordNet 3.0
- n. workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives
- n. a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing
Examples
“I turned, and saw for the first time that at the end of the quarter-deck stood what is called a roundhouse, a small cabin, from which the sounds in question proceeded.”
“The first, vastly enjoyable sign that Alicia is something other than mindlessly supportive comes after the requisite press conference, when she gives him the kind of roundhouse slap such husbands so richly deserve.”
“Opened in 1925, the old Stateville is famous for having a Panopticon, a type of "roundhouse" prison designed by British philosopher Jeremy Bentham.”
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“She was rough-handled by an arresting officer, held in two different jails for a total of 14 hours, being released onto the mean streets of Philly, locked out of the "roundhouse" police station, in the dark, at 5 AM without even the opportunity to first turn on her cell phone to call for a ride home.”
“Drawing back to strike him with a kind of roundhouse wallop, the old woman's body went akimbo in a manner that mimicked the way Matisse had liked to paint her.”
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“His account still left the majority of the features unexplained, and besides, giving a group of them a label, such as 'roundhouse', is a long way short of understanding them.”
“Maps such as roundhouse offer plenty of routes and places to hide out, while smaller maps such as Dome I found even more fun, as compared to COD4's showdown map.”
“Were they in a-- in a kind of roundhouse -- summer-house, you might call it? ”
“Interesting that openline did not cover anything about the Payton family pulling their name off the roundhouse ....”
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“People stopped going to the roundhouse for a lot of reasons ...”
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