GR translation: roundhouses

[Mike Weaver]

One meaning is a lockup 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_lock-up> which fits here.

On 14/08/2025 03:59, Mike Jing wrote:
> V571.23-31, P581.19-27   She tells how her parents lived, her father a
> printer, married during his journeymanship, his wanderyears now stretched
> out to ten, no word where he’s been since ‘42, when they had a note from
> Neukölln, where he had dossed down the night with a friend. Always a
> friend, God knows how many back rooms, roundhouses, print shops he slept
> single nights in, shivering wrapped in back numbers of Die Welt am Montag,
> sure of at least shelter, like everybody in the Buchdrucherverband, often a
> meal, almost certainly some kind of police trouble if the stay lasted too
> long—it was a good union.
>
> What does "roundhouse" mean here?
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