#initial-load-header-loader { visibility: hidden!important; } #initial-load-content { visibility: visible!important; } .expandable .expandable-control { display: none!important; } .expandable .expandable-content { display: block!important; visibility: visible!important; max-height: none!important; height: auto!important; }

bridge house

|

noun Nautical.

a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.

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

Historical Examples of bridge house

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
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
One turns north towards us, with a busy windmiller of a signalman a-top the bridge-house.
Merchantmen-at-Arms
David W. Bone