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roundhouse 1. a circular building in which railway locomotives are serviced or housed, radial tracks being fed by a central turntable 2. Boxing slang a. a swinging punch or style of punching b. (as modifier): a roundhouse style 3. Pinochle US a meld of all four kings and queens 4. Obsolete a cabin on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| You could set your watch by that tune as confidently as by the roundhouse whistle. 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. For a fireman he was scrupulously clean, always washing up in the roundhouse before he came home. |
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