flying bridge
Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
Architecture. skybridge (def. 2).
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How to use flying bridge in a sentence
I perched myself high up on the flying-bridge and watched the busy scene below.
The Relief of Mafeking | Filson YoungTo the keep, four stories high, a flying bridge led, in order to facilitate the withdrawal of the garrison in case of siege.
Legends & Romances of Brittany | Lewis SpenceWith the army was carried a flying bridge, which had been constructed to throw over any gaps there might be in the causeway.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers | Jules VerneThe man who ordinarily undertook this duty being assigned to the signal post in the "flying bridge" of the flagship.
The Dreadnought Boys on Battle Practice | John Henry GoldfrapThe oxen ascended the flying bridge, and in a few minutes were yoked by the alert servants who had been landed with them.
The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 | Theophile Gautier
British Dictionary definitions for flying bridge
an auxiliary bridge of a vessel, usually built above or far outboard of the main bridge
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