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A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house.
- [T]he gentlemen in the coffee room insisted upon the watch being called, or a constable. With considerable difficulty the two heroes were carried off to the round-house, and there lodged for the night.
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A traditional circular dwelling elevated on stilts with a conical roof found in part of Southeast Asia.
- All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smo
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A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe in the Iron Age and Bronze Age.
- A central stone slab cist containing the burial was surrounded by a circles of stones placed on edge, probably to represent the round house in which the deceased had lived.
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The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship.historical
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A privy near the bow of a vessel, especially as reserved for officers.historical
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A circular building in which locomotives are housed, sometimes with a turntable.
- Archaeologists working on HS2 in Birmingham have uncovered the remains of what is believed to be the world's oldest railway roundhouse at Curzon Street station.
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A punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement.US
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In the game of pinochle, a meld consisting of a queen and king in each of the four suits.
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To punch or kick with an exaggerated sweeping movement.transitive
- We focused on the nerve-agent feint, and got roundhoused by the insurgent hook.
- I'm on my feet and my fist is roundhousing and I feel flesh. I hit again, and teeth crack under my fist. I hear voices and they're shouting and a light burns into my face.