binnacle

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Two seats were built against the after bulkhead, chart boxes flanked the forward hatchway and the binnacle was above the steering column.

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  1. noun A case that supports and protects a ship's compass, located near the helm.

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  • He had been leaning against the binnacle, and he fell quite heavily The other guards paid not the slightest attention Doc Savage walked onto the bridge. —  050 - The Terror In The Navy
  • The captain opened the binnacle, and headed the Blanchita to the north. —  Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
  • A swift change passed over his face; in mingled surprise and anger he pointed within the binnacle, and began to question the man at the wheel; but he was more surprised than the captain--so utterly amazed, in fact, that he could not be angry, and only protested that he had kept the vessel true to the course which had been given him, and could not explain why the card had veered three to four points farther westward since the vessel had touched the ground. —  Adventures in Many Lands
  • A single light here at the binnacle, and no other to show from anywhere on board. —  Adventures in Many Lands
  • Everything above board--boats, binnacle, and part of the bulwarks--had been washed away. —  The Red Eric
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  1. Alteration of Middle English bitakille, from Old Spanish bitácula or from Old Portuguese bitácola, both from Latin habitāculum, habitation, from habitāre, to inhabit; see ghabh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also written binacle, a corruption of earlier bittacle, bitticle, from Portuguese bitacola = Spanish bitácora = French habitacle, a binnacle, orig. an abode, from Latin habitaculum, a little dwelling, from habitare, dwell: see habitation.
 

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