roundhouse

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: round=house

CIDE DICTIONARY

roundhouse, n. 

•  A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.  [1913 Webster]
•  A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.  [1913 Webster]
•  A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

roundhouse, n.
1 a circular repair-shed for railway locomotives, built round a turntable.
2 sl. a a blow given with a wide sweep of the arm. b US Baseball a pitch made with a sweeping sidearm motion.
3 hist. a prison; a place of detention.
4 Naut. a cabin or set of cabins on the after part of the quarterdeck, esp. on a sailing-ship.

THESAURUS

roundhouse

Long Melford, backhand, backhander, backstroke, boathouse, bolo punch, carbarn, carport, carriage house, fix-it shop, garage, hangar, haymaker, hook, one-two, repair shop, round-arm blow, short-arm blow, sidewinder, swing, uppercut