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wheelhouse
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated [syn: pilothouse ]
Wikipedia
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In archaeology , a wheelhouse is a prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland . The term was first coined after the discovery of a ruined mound in 1855. The distinctive architectural form related to the complex roundhouses , constitute the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Displays include Eyemouth tapestry, history of Berwickshire fanning and fishing, and the wheelhouse of a modern fishing boat. ▪ Everyone was staring past me, beyond the wheelhouse , at the northern horizon. ▪ I edged back against ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context nautical English) An enclosed compartment, on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge or pilothouse. 2 (context nautical English) The enclosed structure around side paddlewheels ...
Usage examples of wheelhouse.
Wagner and Bauer at the Bofors gun, shattering the wheelhouse windows, catching Langsdorff in the back, driving him headfirst through the door.
While the lights of Le Havre petrol refinery still winked on our right the waves were already coming off the Channel in twenty-foot-high walls of black water, shattering on the bow and wheelhouse and bouncing our small craft helplessly from crest to trough.
He shivered finally and threaded his way back to the wheelhouse, climbed the steps to that scant shelter, where Amos plied the wheel.
The wind howled hungrily around the wheelhouse, and the swells still marched in from the north.
A pool of light from a flashlamp preceded the visitor down the four steps from the wheelhouse to the saloon.
Wagner hauled down the Kriegsmarine ensign on the jackstaff above the wheelhouse.
Its two cabins were squalid, its galley unspeakable, the woodwork of its wheelhouse crudely etched with drawings of the obscenest kind.
As soon as she could, Vere went to the wheelhouse and asked to use the radio to call Brigadoon.
Smoke rising from the brochs and from the wheelhouses … Impossible that it could have happened!
In the wheelhouse above the cabinlike prison, two of the smuggling crew's four enforcers began cutting rope into short lengths while the captain, who stood at the helm, threaded his way up the Orion River in the dark.
In the wheelhouse above the cabinlike prison, two of the smuggling crew's four enforcers began cutting rope into short lengths while the captain, who stood at the helm, threaded his way up the Orion River in the dark.
He watched as Corrin emerged from the wheelhouse, going aft to throw out the inertial anchor before joining Kirk by the opening in the railing, where Kirk had laid out the dive gear.
It was deserted, the deck lamps making pools of yellow light, illuminating the empty lifeboat davits, the deck chairs lined up against the wall of the wheelhouse and the gymnasium.
Snug in the corner of the wheelhouse bunk, dressed in fresh clothes, Rowan drank her steaming coffee.
Unable to do more to protect her from the approaching sea of fire, he stumbled into the wheelhouse, clutching his side where one bullet had plunged into the abdominal muscle, made a small perforation in his colon and lodged in the pelvic girdle.