What is "roundhouse"

Roundhouse \Round"house`\, n.

1. A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house. [Obs.]

2. (Naut.)

   1. A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.

   2. A privy near the bow of the vessel.

3. A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.

also round-house, "lock-up, place of detention," 1580s, from Dutch rondhuis "guardhouse." Meaning "circular shed for locomotives with a turntable in the center" is from 1856. Meaning "blow delivered with a wide sweep of the arm" is perhaps extended from "round building for circular machinery."

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 nautical English) The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship. 5 (context card games English) In the game of pinochle, a meld consisting of a queen and king in each of the four suits. 6 A constable's prison; a lockup or station house. 7 (context nautical English) A privy near the bow of the vessel. vb. To punch or kick with an exaggerated sweeping movement.

1. n. workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives

2. a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing

The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue situated at the Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England.

It was originally built in 1847 by the London and North Western Railway as a roundhouse, a circular building containing a railway turntable, but was only used for this purpose for about a decade. After being used as a warehouse for a number of years, the building fell into disuse just before the Second World War. It reopened twenty-five years later, in 1964, as a performing arts venue, when the playwright Arnold Wesker established the Centre 42 Theatre Company and adapted the building as a theatre.

This large circular structure has hosted various promotions, such as the launch of the underground paper International Times in 1966, The Doors' only UK appearance in 1968, and the Greasy Truckers Party in 1972.

The Greater London Council ceded control of the building to the Camden London Borough Council in 1983. By that time, Centre 42 had run out of funds and the building remained unused until a local businessman purchased the building in 1996 and performing arts shows returned. It was closed again in 2004 for a multi-million pound redevelopment. On 1 June 2006, the Argentine show Fuerzabruta opened at the new Roundhouse.

Since 2006, Roundhouse has hosted the BBC Electric Proms and numerous iTunes Festivals, as well as award ceremonies such as the BT Digital Music Awards and the Vodafone Live Music Awards. In 2009, Bob Dylan performed a concert, and iTunes promoted a music iTunes Festival, at the venue. In line with the continuing legacy of avant-garde productions, No Fit State Circus performed Tabu during which the audience were encouraged to move around the performance space.

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.

Roundhouse is a term applied by archaeologists and anthropologists to a type of house with a circular plan, usually with a conical roof. In the later part of the 20th century modern designs of roundhouse eco-buildings started to be built using techniques such as cob, cordwood or straw bale walls and reciprocal frame green roofs.

The name Roundhouse may refer to:

Roundhouse is an American television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1992 through 1996.

Roundhouse is the first studio album by American post-hardcore band Tar, originally released in 1990 through Amphetamine Reptile Records on vinyl, cassette, and compact disc formats. The CD edition of the album included tracks from the band's 1989 debut extended play Handsome.

Roundhouse is a magazine publication by Transport Heritage New South Wales, formerly known as the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum (NSW RTM). Featuring articles, photographs, news etc. about the New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) during the time of steam and recent trips that the museum have made. It was first published in 1962 and was given out to members of the NSW RTM and also to the general public every three months at many shops that sell magazine such as news agencies, bookshops, Central Station (a bookshop is in the main concourse by the Australian Railway Historical Society), NSW Division and the NSW Rail Transport Museum, Thirlmere, New South Wales.