flying bridge

flying bridge

noun
1.
Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
2.
Architecture. skybridge (def. 2).

Origin:
1480–90
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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flying bridge
 
n
an auxiliary bridge of a vessel, usually built above or far outboard of the main bridge

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