bridge house


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

Origin of bridge house

1
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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How to use bridge house in a sentence

  • A contrast to him, indeed, were the children as they stood together in the little garden at the bridge house.

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

  • 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.

    A Fortunate Term | Angela Brazil
  • And also when certain warehouses were taken away, and laid into the Bridge-House, the annual sum of £6.

    Chronicles of London Bridge | Richard Thompson
  • That night the three devoted women slept beneath the roof of the bridge house.

    The Sign Of The Red Cross | Evelyn Everett-Green