An elevated structure on a ship; (probably) spec. an elevated structure at the rear of a ship, parallel to the forecastle. Cf. summer-hutch, n.

An elevated structure on a ship; (probably) spec. an elevated structure at the rear of a ship, parallel to the forecastle. Cf. summercastle, n. 1.

A cabin built on the after part of the quarterdeck; a roundhouse. Obsolete. rare.

Nautical. A cabin or set of cabins on a sailing ship, located below the poop on the after part of the quarterdeck. Now chiefly historical.

‘The cook-room or kitchen of merchantmen on deck; a diminutive substitute for the galley of a man-of-war. It is generally furnished with…

a shelter at the mast-head for the look-out man, sometimes made with a cask, a ‘crow's nest’; also, a kind of round-house built on the deck.

A structure enclosing a large wheel, e.g. a waterwheel; spec. a house or superstructure containing the steering-wheel, a pilot-house; also, the…

a temporary shelter against storm for workmen (Cent. Dict.); also, a shelter from the weather on a boat.

The wheelhouse of a ship or boat.

Also texas. Western U.S. The uppermost structure of a river-steamer, containing the officers' quarters. Also attributive.

Nautical (now chiefly historical). = deck-house n. at deck, n.1 compounds 2.

a small forecastle where anchor gear is kept (see quot. 1948).