roundhouse
pronunciation
How to pronounce roundhouse in British English:
UK [ˈraʊndhaʊs]
How to pronounce roundhouse in American English:
US [ˈraʊndˌhaʊs]
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- Noun:
- workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives
- a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing
Word Origin
- roundhouse (n.)
- 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."
Example
- 1. Dan asked me to help him practice his roundhouse kick .
- 2. Back home , she knocks me down with a roundhouse , puts her boot on the back of my neck and executes me with a bullet to the back of the head .
- 3. Alan and I could at last wash out the roundhouse and be quit of the memorials of those whom we had slain .
- 4. Few years ago , I sprained my groin muscle and right hamstring because of an unnecessarily high roundhouse kick during a karate belt exam , and all because I wanted to show off .