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roundhouse
[ round-hous ]
noun
- a 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
- slang.boxing
- 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
- obsolete.a cabin on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship
51Թ 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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