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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of centering between steel beams which is novel in that it provides for molding a slab with girders. The form was used in building the roof of a locomotive roundhouse. This roundhouse was of the usual circular form and had a radial width of 80 ft. Each radial roof girder, which was an 18-in. I-beam was carried by an outside wall pier and three I-beam columns encased in concrete. ...

— Concrete Construction - Methods and Costs • Halbert P. Gillette

... to the public square in the middle of the village you will see a big roundhouse. If you take the top off the roundhouse you will see a big spool with a long string winding ...

— Rootabaga Stories • Carl Sandburg

... time the noon whistle blew at the roundhouse every trail and road into Sleepy Cat showed dust—some of them an abundance. The hotel was naturally the center of attraction, and Main Street looked like a Frontier Day crowd. The Reservation, too, sent a delegation for the occasion and mingling ...

— Laramie Holds the Range • Frank H. Spearman

... near by rode a pony down the steps and away for dear life. Behind him came a double-sized gent with yard-wide mustaches. He was dressed in a red shirt, overalls and firearms. He was a walking museum of weapons. Petey told me afterward that he had borrowed him from the roundhouse near by, and that for a box of cigars he had kindly consented to play the part of an irritable arsenal ...

— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch

... uniform of a train newsboy, and any uniform is a uniform. His laugh was like the crash of worlds—and it is to-day after thirty years. When the road pushed on westward Brotherton remained in Harvey and even though the railroad roundhouse employed five hundred men and even though the town's population doubled and then trebled, still George Brotherton was better than everything else that the railroad brought. He found work in a pool and billiard hall; but that was a pent-up ...

— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White

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