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Wheelhouse

noun
1.
An enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated.  Synonym: pilothouse.






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"Wheelhouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... to indulge in cards. This I did not regret, although Beaucaire rather interested me, but, as the gambler seldom permitted the Judge out of his sight, our intimacy grew very slowly. Thockmorton, being his own pilot, seldom left the wheelhouse, and consequently I passed many hours on the bench beside him, gazing out on the wide expanse of river, and listening to his reminiscences of early steam-boating days. He was an intelligent man, with a fund of anecdote, acquainted with every landmark, every whispered tale of the great stream ...
— The Devil's Own - A Romance of the Black Hawk War • Randall Parrish



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



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