roundhouse
Americannoun
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roundhouses
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a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
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Nautical. a cabin on the after part of a quarterdeck.
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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.
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Also called round trip. Pinochle. a meld of one king and queen of each suit.
noun
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a circular building in which railway locomotives are serviced or housed, radial tracks being fed by a central turntable
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slang boxing
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a swinging punch or style of punching
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( as modifier )
a roundhouse style
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pinochle a meld of all four kings and queens
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an obsolete word for jail
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obsolete a cabin on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship
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He left the Air Force in 1962 and set up a martial arts studio in Los Angeles, finding his calling in teaching and delivering roundhouse kicks.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
In the third quarter, he picked off a Washington pass and went in for an uncontested roundhouse dunk.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
The late-night blaze took just six minutes to rip through the centre's best-known feature - a reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse that had stood on stilts in the loch for 25 years.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2023
In front of our flat was a huge roundhouse where locomotives were cleaned and repaired.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
If an internal fire took hold in one of the roundhouses, it would spread between the tightknit structures within minutes.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024
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.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
But it remains unclear if the majority of the hundreds of roundhouses were built before, during or after the tower was in use.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2022
These fortified roundhouses, made with with dry stone walls, were built in the period from 100 BC to 100 AD, and it’s thought Dun Carloway probably sprang up in the 1st century AD.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2017
One is the presidency of a great railroad system—a position I might possibly fit myself to occupy if I went into the machine shops and roundhouses and worked hard for the next five years.
From A Speckled Bird by Augusta J. Evans Wilson
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