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roundhouse

[round-hous] / ˈraʊndˌhaʊs /




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Today, Wahhoga Village includes a traditional roundhouse, traditional cedar bark houses known as umachas and the only cabin that the park service didn’t burn when it evicted the remaining families from the site in 1969.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

He left the Air Force in 1962 and set up a martial arts studio in Los Angeles, finding his calling in teaching and delivering roundhouse kicks.

From Barron's Mar. 20, 2026

Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.

From Science Daily Mar. 20, 2024

In the third quarter, he picked off a Washington pass and went in for an uncontested roundhouse dunk.

From Washington Times Nov. 1, 2023

When you arrived, he wasn’t there, so you practiced: side punch, knife hand block, roundhouse kick.

From "Booked" by Kwame Alexander

Further samples in the coming months will determine if the cistern dates back to the same period as the roundhouses.

From BBC Jan. 1, 2026

One of the main roundhouses, with almost fifty square metres of floor space, appeared to have distinct activity zones comparable to rooms in a modern home.

From Science Daily Mar. 20, 2024

The inhabitants lived in a clutch of thatched roundhouses built on wooden stilts above a channel of the River Nene, which empties into the North Sea.

From New York Times Mar. 19, 2024

These fortified roundhouses, made with with dry stone walls, were built in the period from 100 BC to 100 AD, and it’s thought Dun Carloway probably sprang up in the 1st century AD.

From The Guardian Jun. 28, 2017

The yard facilities, shops, and roundhouses are the last word in modern railroad construction, and the division has not infrequently held the medal for safety records.

From Nan of Music Mountain by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth




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