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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



... caller" for the roundhouse. He was a feature in the B. & M. system, and for ten years had pursued his ...
— Bart Stirling's Road to Success - Or; The Young Express Agent • Allen Chapman


Words linked to "Roundhouse" :   work, workplace, hook


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