chart house
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chart house
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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He’s providing hope for smoother sailing ahead with a talented crew in the chart house.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 22, 2019
It had fallen against the chart house, smashing it, and a number of sailors were laboring to clear away the wreckage.
From Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat, or, under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
He would go down to the chart house with the navigator and stand by to pass him dividers and parallels.
From The U-boat hunters by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly
It stood back of the chart house on the lower bridge, and the second mate or old Jerry Smith would spend many a "watch below" with them.
From The Pirate Shark by Fred J. Arting
Two bits of her still remained; the forecastle, a stubborn wedge nearly always the last part of a steel-built vessel to collapse, and the bridge, with its backing of the chart house.
From His Unknown Wife by Louis Tracy
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