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Roundhouse   Listen
noun
Roundhouse  n.  
1.
A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house. (Obs.)
2.
(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.
3.
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



... indignation at this change, even he felt the chill unloveliness of the long reaches of the barn filled with lifeless cars, where an occasional electric bulb burned like an ignis fatuus in the misty gloom. How much more attractive a railroad roundhouse, with iron monsters on its converging tracks, each with his cyclopean eye of fire, each panting deeply with ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins

... across the mouth of it," he bade them, and whilst, assisted by another two, they made haste to obey, he turned to the others. "To the roundhouse, some of you, and fetch the Spanish prisoners. And you, Dyke, go up and bid them set the flag ...
— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini

... some swabbing out the roundhouse. One of them is lolling at the wheel. She flies ...
— The Inn at the Red Oak • Latta Griswold

... once been a "division-point." The roundhouse and repair-shops were gone, but two conductors still retained residence, and they were persons of distinction, men who traveled and talked to strangers, who wore uniforms with brass buttons, and knew all about these crooked games of con-men. They were a special caste, neither above nor ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

... the present series, entitled "Ralph of the Roundhouse," it was told how Ralph left school to earn a living and help his ...
— Ralph on the Overland Express - The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer • Allen Chapman

... polo pony and of the blooded trotter; and thus he was led to compose '007,' in which we see the pattern of the primitive beast-fable so stretched as to enable us to overhear the intimate conversation of humanized locomotives, the steeds of steel that puff and pant in and out of the roundhouse in an American railroad yard. Yet one more extension of the pattern enabled him to take a final step; after having given a human soul to separate engines, he proceeded then to animate the several parts of a single machine. ...
— Inquiries and Opinions • Brander Matthews

... so very singular about that. Give an old railroad engineer a week off, and presently you will discover him spending the time loafing around the roundhouse, chatting with the other engineers, and investigating things. His whole life being wrapped up in his work his idea of a vacation consists of being free to watch his fellows of ...
— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach

... brakes are turned on time, Life's throttle-valve shut down, He works to pilot in the crew That wears the martyr's crown. On schedule time, on upper grade Along the homeward section, He lands his train in God's roundhouse The morn of resurrection. His time is full, no wages docked, His name on God's pay roll, And transportation through to Heaven A free pass ...
— Quaint Epitaphs • Various

... face to Ogilvy. "Checkmated!" he announced. "Whipped to a frazzle. The Colonel is lying, Buck, and I've caught him at it. As a matter of fact, the mogul didn't kick those flats in at all. The switch-engine did—and I know it. Now I'm going to send a man over to snoop around Pennington's roundhouse and verify his report about the switch-engine being in ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne

... bosom, but it was so offensive and decayed, that we were glad to look another way. There was no male corpse to be seen, which, coupled with the absence of the boats, evinced but too clearly that the crew had left the females, with their helpless infants, on the wreck to perish. There was a small roundhouse on the after—part of the deck, in which we found three other women alive, but wasted to skeletons. We took them into the boat, but one died in getting her over the side; the other two we got on board, and I am glad to say that they both recovered. For two days neither could speak; ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... First Wireless, The Radio Boys at Ocean Point Ralph of the Roundhouse, Ralph on the ...
— The Radio Boys at the Sending Station - Making Good in the Wireless Room • Allen Chapman



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