Meaning of wheel-house | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“Captain Waterman was on the wheel-house at the time of the explosion, attending to the landing of passengers from the small boat. He noticed a movement over the boilers, and immediately jumped or was thrown upon the forward⟳ deck. He was somewhat bruised, but not seriously injured.”

“PLATE XXVII.—Details of the Paddle Wheel of the Steamboat "North America." Fig. 1, shows the outside framing of the paddle-box, or as it is frequently termed, the wheel-house; also an elevation of the paddle-wheel, shewing the arrangement of the buckets, arms, centre-plate, &c.”

“These little rooms have⟳ each a half glass door, which opens on a gallery running all round the boat, with only the interruption of the wheel-houses, outside of which is a door of Venetian blinds, which being thrown open⟳, you can sit⟳ in your room and see⟳ every object on one side of the river.”

“The wheel-house is a small room or closet, with windows in front, built on the deck, in the forward⟳ part of the boat, where the helmsman stands to steer⟳. The windows in the front of the wheel-house are for him to look⟳ out, and see⟳ where he is going. [...] There is a large wheel in this place⟳, which is the reason⟳ why they call⟳ it the wheel-house. The wheel has handles to it, all around, for the man to take⟳ hold⟳ of, to turn⟳ the wheel one way or the other.”

“The mill was driven by an overshot wheel twenty-seven and a half feet in diameter, placed in a separate⟳ wheel-house, built of stone, between the mill and a bank thirty feet high, upon which the water was brought by a canal.”

“This invention relates to an improved device for hanging the body of carriages having a so-called "cut-under" or wheel-house, such as a common rockaway, extension-top phaeton, coupé-rockaway, &c., [...]”

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