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roundhouse
[round-hous]
noun
plural
roundhousesa building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
Nautical.a cabin on the after part of a quarterdeck.
Slang.a punch in which the arm is typically brought straight out to the side or rear of the body and in which the fist describes an exaggerated circular motion.
Also called round trip.Pinochle.a meld of one king and queen of each suit.
roundhouse
/ ˈʊԻˌʊ /
noun
a circular building in which railway locomotives are serviced or housed, radial tracks being fed by a central turntable
slangboxing
a swinging punch or style of punching
( as modifier )
a roundhouse style
pinochle a meld of all four kings and queens
an obsolete word for jail
obsoletea cabin on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship
Word History and Origins
Origin of roundhouse1
Example Sentences
The artefacts were unearthed at a Bronze Age settlement of wooden roundhouses built over a river channel at Must Farm at Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.
Urías throws a roundhouse punch with his pitching hand and unleashes a stream of expletives in Spanish.
One of the main roundhouses, with almost fifty square metres of floor space, appeared to have distinct activity zones comparable to rooms in a modern home.
The inhabitants lived in a clutch of thatched roundhouses built on wooden stilts above a channel of the River Nene, which empties into the North Sea.
In the third quarter, he picked off a Washington pass and went in for an uncontested roundhouse dunk.
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