Category:Roundhouse

Round"house`, n.

1. A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house. [obs.]

2. (naut.) (a) a cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, Having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach. (b) a privy near the bow of the vessel.

3. A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a Turntable.