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A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.

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  1. n. A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house.
  2. n. A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.
  3. n. A privy near the bow of the vessel.
  4. n. A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.
  5. n. workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives
  6. n. a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing
  7. n:100 n. workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives n. a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing