pilothouse

plural pilothouses

1. nauticalA wheelhouse.

   The funnel projected through that roof, and in front of the funnel a small cabin built of light planks served for a pilot-house.

   1899, Joseph Conrad, chapter 2, in Heart of Darkness

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   Suddenly I felt a deep pang of regret—for all those thousands of poor mortals who had not stood in a pilothouse and felt that surge of eager motion as some ancient riverboat slid through deep bayou waters and headed downstream. […] From the pilothouse I walked onto the hurricane deck and watched as the sun dropped behind the bearded oaks, casting long shadows across the limpid bayou.

   1957, Carolyn Ramsey, “‘Steamin’ at de Moon’”, in Cajuns on the Bayous, New York, N.Y.: Hastings House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24

2. A yacht or other small vessel which has a wheelhouse.