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ROUND-HOUSE
ROUND-HOUSE, a name given,, in East-Indiamen, and other large merchant-ships, to a cabin or apartment built in the after part of the quarter-deck, and having the poop for its roof. The apartment is usually called the coach in our ships of war.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 248, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1094.html