What is "binnacles"

Usage examples of "binnacles".

He wanted to think: he wanted to think there on deck, in the closest possible touch with the situation - with the shifting wind on his face, the glow of the binnacles just at hand and not the least interruption.

At the beginning of the middle watch the sky clouded over, and towards two bells a shower came weeping across, the drops hissing on the binnacles.

There were old ship's kettles, binnacles, railings, mostly of copper, but some of brass.

The only other man on the bridge was the Arab helmsman standing immobile, his eyes fixed on the lit compass card in its binnacles, only his hands moving as he made small adjustments to the wheel.

Glass-encased ship models blended with wooden-spoke helms and compass binnacles, ship's bells, and copper and brass diver's helmets.

Brass eighteenth-century orreries, extants, and telescopes abutted twentieth-century binnacles and Starfleet-issue tricorders.

The sea broke over as we lay in the trough, deluging us with water from the forecastle, aft, to the binnacles and very often, as the ship descended with a plunge, it was with such force that I really thought she would divide in half with the violence of the shock.