roundhouse
noun
a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
roundhouses
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pluralof roundhouse.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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.
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
