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/rˈaʊndhˌaʊs/ Listen

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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"Roundhouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... me now," thought Caryl Carne, while he put up his horse and set off for the Admiral's Roundhouse. "I want to be cool as a cucumber, and that insolent villain has made pepper of me. What devil sent him here at ...

— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore

... with the silver hilt, perched on his broad shoulder. He used to tell me that he had been a soldier, and had fought under Colonel Kirk; and that he had a wife, who washed bands and ruffles for the gentlemen of the Life Guard, and drank strong waters till she found herself in the Roundhouse. Always on a Sunday morning, as the church-bells began to ring, the Unknown Lady would give me a Guinea to put into the plate after service. I remember that the year before she died, when I was big ...

— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 • George Augustus Sala

... returned to Northport, his headquarters, there to observe a group of grinning railroad men gathered about a great, bulky object parked in front of the roundhouse. Behind it were other contraptions of shining steel, all of which Martin recognized without a second glance—his snow-fighting equipment, just arrived. Nor did he approach for a closer view. Faintly he heard jeering remarks from the crowd; then laughter. He caught ...

— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various

... down my name and the number of the crack engine of America—as well as the imprint of a greasy thumb—on the register of our roundhouse last Saturday night, the foreman borrowed a chew of my fireman's fine-cut, and ...

— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady

... the water-meads 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 for the Cumberland ...

— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing

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