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
Nellie Wilson works part-time weaving together hazel branches to build the walls and roof of a replica Iron Age roundhouse.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2023
He extends his leg into a perfect side kick, then brings it back and does the roundhouse.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
The artefacts were unearthed at a Bronze Age settlement of wooden roundhouses built over a river channel at Must Farm at Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2024
"In a freezing winter, with winds cutting across the Fens, these roundhouses would have been pretty cosy," said CAU project archaeologist Dr Chris Wakefield.
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
They fought with jabs from a kid quarterback, roundhouses from acrobatic receivers and knockdowns by giant linemen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2017
The yard facilities, shops, and roundhouses are the last word in modern railroad construction, and the division has not infrequently held the medal for safety records.
From Nan of Music Mountain by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
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