pilothouse

[pahy-luht-hous]

pi·lot·house

[pahy-luht-hous]
noun, plural pi·lot·hous·es [-hou-ziz] . Nautical.
an enclosed structure on the deck of a ship from which it can be navigated.
Also called wheelhouse.


Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; pilot + house
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Pilothouse is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
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.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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pilothouse

noun
an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated 
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