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Definition of Flying bridge
1. Noun. The highest navigational bridge on a ship; a small (often open) deck above the pilot house.
Definition of Flying bridge
1. Noun. (nautical) A (usually open) area on top of, or at the side of, a ship's pilothouse, serving as an operating station for the officers in good weather or when manoeuvring in port. ¹
2. Noun. A structure in a castle of some sort. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flying Bridge
Literary usage of Flying bridge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. China and the Roman Orient: Researches Into Their Ancient and Mediaval by Friedrich Hirth (1885)
"The flying bridge, I conclude from the situation described (west of Lii-fen, on
the road to the capital of Ta-ts'in), was identical with the bridge built by ..."
2. A Pedestrian Tour of Two Thousand Three Hundred Miles in North America: To by Philip Stansbury (1822)
"... of that wonderful “flying bridge,”which the enterprising inhabitants of Carthage
long since threw in one ..."
3. Military Bridges: with Suggestions of New Expedients and Construction for by Hermann Haupt (1864)
"A flying bridge may also be made of one vessel. ... For a flying bridge on a
small scale, on rivers of moderate rapidity, the vessel (Figs. 7, 8, PI. LIV. ..."
4. A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, Through Holland and the Western by Ann Ward Radcliffe (1795)
"... works of the former place^ being connected with it by a flying-bridge over
the Rhine. A little lower are the remains of the old chateau of ..."
5. A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the by John Carr (1807)
"DUSSELDORF DESCRIBED ITS INHABITANTS THE GRAND DUCAL COURT ANECDOTE OF MURAT A
DOUBLE ENTENDRE \ THE flying bridge COLOGNE A CONTRABAND PEEP THE CATHEDRAL A ..."
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