| 1. | flying bridge. |
| 2. | Also called flying gangway. a raised fore-and-aft catwalk permitting safe passage when the weather deck is washed by heavy seas. |
| 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). |
| monkey bridge | |
noun | |
| 1. | a high narrow platform above a deck or in an engine room or boiler room |
| 2. | the highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house [syn: flying bridge] |