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Wheelhouse   Listen
noun
Wheelhouse  n.  (Naut.)
(a)
A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel.
(b)
A paddle box. See under Paddle.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wheelhouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... a name, but although the ship we boarded at Port Melbourne docks was designated by the number A 14, it was not hard to discover that we were on a well-known ocean-liner, for on life-buoys and wheelhouse the paint was not so thick that inquisitiveness could not see the name that in pre-war days the Aberdeen line proudly advertised as one of their most comfortable passenger-carrying ships. That meant little to us, for her trimmings of comfort had been stripped off but for a few cabins left for the ...
— "Over There" with the Australians • R. Hugh Knyvett



Words linked to "Wheelhouse" :   bridge, compartment, conning tower, pilothouse, bridge deck



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