roundhouse

noun

A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house. / (nautical, now chiefly historical) The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship.

The prisoners were kept in a roundhouse.

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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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(nautical, now chiefly historical) The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship.

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(nautical, now historical) A privy near the bow of a vessel, especially as reserved for officers.

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(rail transport) A circular building in which locomotives are housed.

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(archaeology) 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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