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Definition of Fly bridge
1. Noun. The highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fly Bridge
Literary usage of Fly bridge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of The Scots (1821)
"The work which attracted meet of my attention in this quarter of the city was
the Fly-Bridge, similar to those so advantageously used upon the Rhine, ..."
2. Account of Leslie's Retreat at the North Bridge in Salem, on Sunday Feb'y 26 by Charles Moses Endicott, Essex Institute (1856)
"... mentioned some obstruction of a Fly-Bridge, and with not a little resentment
in his eyes told Caesar that the " geese were flown. ..."
3. History of St. Mary's Abbey, Melrose, the Monastery of Old Melrose, and the by James A. Wade, Adam Milne (1861)
"... or, as it is called, the Fly-bridge, from a fly-boat plying here formerly.
Near the bridge is a pleasant mansion, the residence of Mrs Tod of Kirklands, ..."
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