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noun

Roundhouse n.

A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house. (Obs.)

(Naut.)

(a)

A cabin or apartment on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; sometimes called the coach.

(b)

A privy near the bow of the vessel.

A house for servicing and repair of locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable bearing railroad tracks, with several tracks leading in and out.

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Etymology of 'Roundhouse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Roundhouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... haggard and faint, and the decks deserted save for the watch, I did as she bade me as well as I might by reason of my fetters and the uneasy motion of the ship, and at last (and no small labour) I brought her into the great cabin or roundhouse under the poop. And now she would have me bide and talk with her awhile, but this I would by no ...

— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol

... to sketch. In the mill itself he made countless studies. Not only of the ever-changing heavens, and of the monotonous sweeps of the great plains, whose aspect is more changeable than one might think, but studies on the various floors of the mill, and in the roundhouse, where old meal- bins and swollen sacks looked picturesque in the dim light falling from above, in which also the circular stones, the shaft, and the very hoppers, became effective subjects ...

— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... bedchamber. An exactly parallel apartment, only with rather a worse view, was this time set at three hundred and fifty guineas—a tolerable rise in thirty-three years! The platform from St. Margaret's Roundhouse to the church-door, which formerly let for forty pounds, went this time for two thousand four hundred pounds. Still more was given for the inside of the Abbey. The prebends would like a Coronation every year. The King paid nine thousand pounds for the hire of jewels; indeed, last time, it cost ...

— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole

... seein' the Rebels ridin' horses, three double, down the road time of the war. I used to run off from mama to the county band—right where the roundhouse is now. Mama used to have to come after me. You know I wasn't no baby when I shed all ...

— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Arkansas Narratives Part 3 • Works Projects Administration

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