bridge house

noun

, Nautical.

1. a deckhouse including a bridge or bridges for navigation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bridge house¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

A contrast to him, indeed, were the children as they stood together in the little garden at the Bridge House.

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They had become accustomed to see Dick half asleep in his armchair in the garden, or before the fire at the Bridge House.

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Bridge House is simply A1, and if school anything like comes up to it, well—I shall say it's the time of my life.

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And also when certain warehouses were taken away, and laid into the Bridge-House, the annual sum of £6.

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That night the three devoted women slept beneath the roof of the bridge house.

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