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wheelhouse

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wheelhouse [′wēl‚hau̇s]
(naval architecture)


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On the bridge a knot of men, indistinct and toiling, were making great efforts in the light of the wheelhouse windows that shone mistily on their heads and backs.
For a quartermaster had entered the wheelhouse, and even while we had been speaking the pilot had taken possession of the bridge; as we descended, the tender left us with flying handkerchiefs and shrill good-bys; and as we bowed to Miss Werner on the promenade deck, there came a deep, slow throbbing underfoot, and our voyage had begun.
They take the dish up to the wheelhouse for him with a cover on it, and he shuts both the doors before he begins to eat.
 
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