Wheelhouse Definition

hwēlhous, wēlhous
noun

Pilothouse.

Webster's New World

(nautical) An enclosed compartment, on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge or pilothouse.

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(nautical) The enclosed structure around side paddlewheels on a steamboat.

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(general slang) A person's expertise.
The pitch was right in his wheelhouse, and he hit a salami.
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Noun

Singular:
wheelhouse
Plural:
wheelhouses

Origin of Wheelhouse

Wheelhouse Sentence Examples

  • I took a photograph and a minute later I entered the wheelhouse.

  • The drive to the milling machinery returned to the wheelhouse via a belt drive that came in through a hatch in the roof.

  • She had a refit in 1897 when the funnels were heightened, the yards were removed and she was given a wheelhouse.

  • The most unusual find this year was the carving of a Pictish bear, found on a paving stone in the largest wheelhouse.

  • Geminus has been re - engined with a six-cylinder K-19 Cummins and given a new aluminum wheelhouse.

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