roundhouse 的定义
plural round·hous·es [round-hou-ziz]. /ˈraʊndˌhaʊ zɪz/.
- a building for the servicing and repair of locomotives, built around a turntable in the form of some part of a circle.
- Nautical. a cabin on the after part of a quarterdeck.
- Slang. a punch in which the arm is typically brought straight out to the side or rear of the body and in which the fist describes an exaggerated circular motion.
- Also called round trip. Pinochle. a meld of one king and queen of each suit.
roundhouse 近义词
等同于 biff
等同于 hit
更多roundhouse例句
- Above-the-knee amputees can go for a prosthesis with a bionic knee joint that allows for a more familiar up-and-down running action, or one that creates a straight leg from hip to blade and requires a roundhouse stride.
- At the moment, Gingrich is carefully jabbing at Romney, not throwing roundhouse punches.
- In the end, the Iowa roundhouse may only delay the real train wreck to come.
- At seventeen he was transferred to the roundhouse; at nineteen he apprenticed himself to the machinist trade.
- Maunders, as one who had known him well remarked long afterwards, "was too crooked to sleep in a roundhouse."
- The engine that has pulled it in from the road backs itself down to the roundhouse, without another thought of the train.
- This is within the mountain country, and the gossip that you get around the roundhouse is all of grades.
- When they were done shoving and bunting there, they had no time to run back to the roundhouse and get a rake.