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roundhouse

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round·house  (roundhous)
n.
1. A circular building for housing and switching locomotives.
2. Nautical A cabin on the after part of the quarterdeck of a ship.
3. Games A meld of four kings and four queens in pinochle.
4. Slang A punch or swing delivered with a sweeping sidearm movement.
roundhouse
Noun
US & Canad a circular building in which railway locomotives are serviced
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.roundhouseroundhouse - workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives
workplace, work - a place where work is done; "he arrived at work early today"
2.roundhouse - a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing
hook - a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent


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You could set your watch by that tune as confidently as by the roundhouse whistle.
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To be sure, I would tell him how kindly I had myself been used upon that dry land he was so much afraid of, and how well fed and carefully taught both by my friends and my parents: and if he had been recently hurt, he would weep bitterly and swear to run away; but if he was in his usual crackbrain humour, or (still more) if he had had a glass of spirits in the roundhouse, he would deride the notion.
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For a fireman he was scrupulously clean, always washing up in the roundhouse before he came home.
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