Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Usage examples of "wheel-house".
They passed behind the wheel-house and only the pilots knew that at its corner Madame Hayle stopped where she could still see and hear.
At the far end of the bridge he stopped, looked through the starboard wheel-house door at the haze-blurred silhouette of Linga Island melting softly into the purple distance, then turned back again.
All this while the shells had been dropping into the water, and shrieking through the air about the vessels, and one or two had found a lodgement in the wheel-house of the transport.
Pitt snaked through the open door of the wheel-house and into its ominous, cryptlike interior.
In the wheel-house, three conservationists pored over maps and charts whose dark markings represented ruined reefs around the world.
And then he had rolled and twisted his way into shelter and safety, there was a brief, crescendoing thunder of, sound and the planes had swept by only feet above the wheel-house.
But the straight-across platform deck forward of the main cabin and wheel-house sat only fourteen inches above the water, making it relatively simple for a person in the water to grab hold of the leading edge.
He called down to the quartermaster, still in the wheel-house: 'Pipe leave to the port watch from seventeen hundred to oh-eight-double-oh,' and then he gathered his belongings together and made his way down the succession of ladders to his cabin.