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Railroad-yard feature
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roundhouse
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A roundhouse is a building with a circular or semicircular shape used by railroads for servicing and storing locomotives , and traditionally surrounds, or is adjacent to, a turntable .
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n. 1 (context rail transport English) A circular building in which locomotives are housed. 2 (context martial arts English) A punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement. 3 (context archaeology English) An Iron Age dwelling. 4 (context ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing
Usage examples of roundhouse.
Privacy for his bowels was another luxury to which he was unaccustomed, having to share the beakhead roundhouse with the other inferior petty officers, or the open rail seats if he was caught short.
The closer of the two Cutters lunged for Chuck and swung a roundhouse at him.
She saw again the pleased look on his face when she had walked back into the Roundhouse after her trip down to the Maricopa County Jail.
Armed with an address from the phone book and her notes, she headed for downtown Peoria and the Roundhouse Bar and Grill.
Dagro would never have placed Scarpe above Orrl, or invited dispossessed Scarpemen to rest their swords in his roundhouse.
With her in the three-story roundhouse lived her five apprentices, who waited on her to earn their training.
This morning fires still burned in the huts and roundhouses, and the air was full of the rich scent of wood smoke, and the greasier scents of cooking.
The longhouses and the roundhouses were filled, the meadows were filled, the sacred groves were filled.
They seemed to be of colossal size, bigger than Wall-hawks: as big as roundhouses, for all we could tell.
We all trembled at that: for the shambler is said to be as big as a roundhouse, but makes no sound in the forest and leaves no footprint.
As she drove in under the cut, Beme whipped a straight-leg roundhouse kick at her ribs while holding his Buckler across his solar plexus to stop her knife thrust.
I burst out of the roundhouse and looked down the steep, bouldered face of the peak thai fen toward the village.
He spent his afternoons in the roundhouse where, he told Sharpe, Lord William was compiling a report for the Board of Control.
He evaded a roundhouse kick Keff aimed at him, grabbed Keff's leg, and propelled him backward over the stack of crates toward the image of the third console.
The boys can hardly wait to apply what Matern has drummed into them: his horizontal fist shows the surface employed in the backhand shot and the risky roundhouse shot.