binnacles

After the exhibition, I stopped by at a branch of Nauticalia, the mail-order company that has a chain of stores specialising in replica binnacles, ship's wheels and hurricane lamps, as well as pennants, guernseys and sou'westers: many homes in Britain must look like the bridge of a spanking new 1950s trawler, with inhabitants dressed as spanking new 1950s trawlermen.

First toys, then models and now works of art 2010

Stacked instrument binnacles, rather like a Honda Civic's, present the readouts behind the steering wheel.

Getting a Charge From Nissan's New Leaf 2010

I would like to show you our measurements, but I lost my binnacles from 1982 because they were stolen from my home. jae

Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit 2007

There we go again… Conflicting binnacles of NOAA and UAH.

Unthreaded #15 « Climate Audit 2007

At this juncture, Conundrum, who had finished scraping up the melted iron, began to discourse on such things as compasses and binnacles and lodestones and his great-great-uncles theory on why north could be found in the north and not in the south, a theory that had proved to be quite controversial and was still being argued to this day.

Dragons Of A Lost Star Weis, Margaret 2001

I wanted to hunt up a fellow who could put me wise on binnacles and charts and things like that.

Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

And all this is extra to the regular routine, with its lamp-lockers, binnacles, timekeeping, incessant look-out, and trick at the wheel.

All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways William Charles Henry Wood 1905

We had to lay to for forty-eight hours, during which we shipped a sea which swept the boats, caboose, binnacles, etc., clean off the deck.

The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

'The cloud-capped towers, the solemn binnacles, the gorgeous temples, the great globe itself: yea, all that it inherit shall dissolve, and, like this influential pageant faded, leave not a rack behind.'

Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903

A shiny black steam-yacht, with mahogany deck-house, nickel-plated binnacles, and pink-and-white-striped awnings puffed up the harbour, flying the burgee of some New York club.

Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900