bridge house

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noun Nautical.

a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.

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Nearby words

bridge circuit, bridge cloth, bridge deck, bridge financing, bridge fluting, bridge house, bridge lamp, bridge loan, bridge of san luis rey, the, bridge of sighs, bridge passage

Origin of bridge house

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for bridge house

And also when certain warehouses were taken away, and laid into the Bridge-House, the annual sum of £6.
Chronicles of London Bridge|Richard Thompson
Perhaps that genius might be with him now in the bridge-house.
The Mummy and Miss Nitocris|George Griffith
As for the bridge-house, there chanced to be no spare quarters for us there.
Historic Waterways--Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers|Reuben Gold Thwaites
One turns north towards us, with a busy windmiller of a signalman a-top the bridge-house.
Merchantmen-at-Arms|David W. Bone