chart house


nounNautical.
  1. a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.

Origin of chart house

1
First recorded in 1890–95

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How to use chart house in a sentence

  • After a long scrutiny of sky and sea, and a tap at the mercurial barometer hanging in the chart-house, he spoke to the mate.

    The Viking Blood | Frederick William Wallace
  • I reached the ladder to the bridge just as the captain came out of the chart house.

    The Fat of the Land | John Williams Streeter
  • Mr. Shannon and two of the younger officers were killed by the explosion that wrecked the bridge and chart house.

    West Wind Drift | George Barr McCutcheon
  • And a minute later Frobisher found himself ducking his head in order to get in through the low chart-house door-way.

    A Chinese Command | Harry Collingwood
  • So I made up an excuse and sent him off to the chart-house for a pair of dividers (which I didn't want), and away he went.

    Major Vigoureux | A. T. Quiller-Couch