1808–10,William Hickey,Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 137:
[T]he gentlemen in the coffee room insisted upon the watch being called, or a constable. With considerable difficulty the two heroes were carried off to theround-house, and there lodged for the night.
Atraditional circulardwelling elevated onstilts with a conical roof found in part of Southeast Asia.
All the time six or eight large Chinese gongs were being beaten by the vigorous arms of as many young men, producing such a deafening discord that I was glad to escape to theround house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head.
A central stone slab cist containing the burial was surrounded by a circles of stones placed on edge, probably to represent theround house in which the deceased had lived.
1948 November and December, “Crewe M.P.D. to be Modernised”, inRailway Magazine, page372:
Crewe North Motive Power Depot is to be modernised completely. This includes the provision of a new coaling plant, ash handling plant, and two new locomotive sheds of the latestroundhouse type, each with 32 roads radiating from a 70-ft. dia. turntable.
2020 March 25, “Network News: HS2 work uncovers oldestroundhouse”, inRail, page16:
Archaeologists working on HS2 in Birmingham have uncovered the remains of what is believed to be the world's oldest railwayroundhouse at Curzon Street station.
2008 March 16, Nathaniel Fick, “Worries Over Being ‘Slimed’”, inNew York Times[1]:
We focused on the nerve-agent feint, and gotroundhoused by the insurgent hook.
2009, Diane Tullson,Riley Park, page18:
I'm on my feet and my fist isroundhousing and I feel flesh. I hit again, and teeth crack under my fist. I hear voices and they're shouting and a light burns into my face.
