¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pilothouses
1. pilothouse [n] - See also: pilothouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilothouses
Literary usage of Pilothouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events (1863)
"... turrets, and pilothouses, was considerably dinted ; but nothing like fracture
of the armor or turrets occurred, and nothing approaching to penetration. ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1865)
"Nearly a hundred were obtained that day, besides a quantity of five-inch plank
with which to barricade the very conspicuous pilothouses of the John Adams. ..."
3. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1895)
"The remaining two were very much disabled also, having received a number of heavy
shots about the pilothouses and other parts of the vessels. ..."
4. Military History of Ulysses S. Grant: From April, 1861, to April, 1865 by Adam Badeau (1885)
"The remaining two were very much disabled also, having received a number of heavy
shots about the pilothouses and other parts of the vessels. ..."
5. Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2001)
"Its double-headed shape was just what was needed in that swift and crooked stream;
the exposed pilothouses had been tolerably barricaded with the thick ..."
Other Resources:
