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bridge house

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noun Nautical.

a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.

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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