Wheelhouse or Wheel-house mey refer to
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Nautical
- The location of the steering wheel of a boat or ship
- The covering or housing of a paddle wheel in a paddle steamer also known as the paddle-box[2]
Jargon
- In baseball jargon: The sweet spot of a baseball player's strike zone where the most power and strength can be utilized.[3][4]
- An English language idiom derived from the baseball jargon meaning area of knowledge.
Architecture
- Wheelhouse (archaeology) - a prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland.
- The portion of the building in a Watermill that contains the Waterwheel or gears to power the millstone[5]
References
- ^ Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company. 1973.wheelhouse n.
- ^ Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and Engineering (2nd Edition). New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company. 1873. p. 581.
- ^ Dickson, Paul (1999). The new Dickson Baseball Dictionary. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 533. ISBN 9780156005807. Cited first 1959 by Bill Rigney; Etymology atrributed to Peter Tamony who suggested that batters "wheel" at the ball ("take good, level 'roundhouse' swings")
- ^ Rigney, Bill - Orlando Cepeda's slump. San Francisco Chronicle, May 11, 1959,
- ^ Bracegirdle, Brian (1973). The archaeology of the Industrial Revolution. Heinemann Educational. p. 88. ISBN 9780435329907.
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