round houses
Wide arcing blows
Round houses is the plural of roundhouse.
In boxing, a roundhouse is a wide, sweeping punch that travels in an arc rather than straight: He threw a wild roundhouse that missed completely.
The term extends to any sweeping blow or kick.
Separately, a roundhouse is a circular building for servicing locomotives, with tracks radiating from a central turntable.
- gerPortable nomadic tent
- yurtFelt-covered nomad tent
- mud hutSimple earth-walled dwelling
- thatched roofStraw or reed covering
- grass roofDried plant covering overhead
dwelling · roundhouse · circular · shelter · construction · dry stone · barrow · hillforts · community · stone circles · tradition · prehistoric · architecture · buildings · structure · Iron Age · living history · archeological sites
- Hakkamountain songs, roundhouse, roundhouses
- Natufian cultureLevant, bone tools, grinding stones, mortars, pestles
- prehistoric sitesStonehenge, Lascaux, Carnac, Altamira, Cro-Magnon