A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house.
1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 137:
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A traditional circular dwelling elevated on stilts with a conical roof found in part of Southeast Asia.
: [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 the round-house, and there lodged for the night.
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(archaeology) A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe in the Iron Age and Bronze Age.
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 the round house, where I slept very comfortably with half a dozen …
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