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chart house

noun

, Nautical.
  1. a room or deckhouse for storing and working with charts, navigational instruments, etc.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of chart house1

First recorded in 1890–95

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Example Sentences

After a long scrutiny of sky and sea, and a tap at the mercurial barometer hanging in the chart-house, he spoke to the mate.

I reached the ladder to the bridge just as the captain came out of the chart house.

Mr. Shannon and two of the younger officers were killed by the explosion that wrecked the bridge and chart house.

And a minute later Frobisher found himself ducking his head in order to get in through the low chart-house door-way.

So I made up an excuse and sent him off to the chart-house for a pair of dividers (which I didn't want), and away he went.

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