Wheelhouse: alternatives and connections

The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…

A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…

One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…

An upward convexity of a deck or other surface; as, she has a high camber (said of a vessel having an unusual convexity of deck).

A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.

To conduct, or superintend the steering of (a vessel); to watch the course of (a vessel) and direct the helmsman how to steer.

A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the w…

A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; -- called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.

Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vesse…

That part of the spar deck of a vessel on each side of the booms, from the quarter-deck to the forecastle; -- more properly termed the…

An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves…

See Half deck, under Deck.

A tub lashed to a vessel's deck and containing salted provisions for daily use; -- called also harness tub.

A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to ho…

A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the pri…

movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel"

A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for de…