单词 | roundhouse |
释义 | roundhouse/ˈraʊndhaʊs /noun 1A railway locomotive maintenance shed built around a turntable.The complex included a roundhouse built in 1924, and a massive Back Shop, constructed in 1905, along with dozens of other ancillary structures....
2 informal A blow given with a wide sweep of the arm: he caught Dad on the head with a roundhouse [as modifier]: he’d taken a roundhouse punch...
2.1 Baseball A slow, widely curving pitch. 2.2A wide turn on a surfboard. 3chiefly historical A cabin or set of cabins on the after part of the quarterdeck of a sailing ship. |
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