different between pinochle vs roundhouse

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: p??-n?k-?l, IPA^(key): /?pi?n?k.l?/

Noun

pinochle (countable and uncountable, plural pinochles)

1. (card games) A card game, similar to bezique.
2. (card games) A meld of the jack of diamonds and queen of spades in that card game.

Anagrams

• phenicol, phenolic

English

Alternative forms

• round house

Etymology

From round +? house.

Noun

roundhouse (plural roundhouses)

1. A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house. [from 15th c.]
   • 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 the round-house, and there lodged for the night.

2. (nautical, now chiefly historical) The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship. [from 17th c.]
3. (nautical, now historical) A privy near the bow of a vessel, especially as reserved for officers. [from 19th c.]
4. (rail transport) A circular building in which locomotives are housed. [from 19th c.]
5. (archaeology) A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe in the Iron Age and Bronze Age. [from 19th c.]
6. (chiefly US) A punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement. [from 20th c.]
7. (card games) In the game of pinochle, a meld consisting of a queen and king in each of the four suits.

Derived terms

• roundhouse kick

Related terms

• (rail transport) engine shed

Translations

Verb

roundhouse (third-person singular simple present roundhouses, present participle roundhousing, simple past and past participle roundhoused)

1. To punch or kick with an exaggerated sweeping movement.
   • 2009, Diane Tullson, Riley Park (page 18)

     I'm on my feet and my fist is roundhousing 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.