Binnacle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BINNACLE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.
• a nonmagnetic housing for a ship\'s compass (usually in front of the helm)
• a built-in housing for a ship's compass.
• box holding a ship's compass
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a compass stand
• box holding a ship\'s compass

Words related to BINNACLE

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Words that contain BINNACLE

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How to use BINNACLE in a sentence

• As I approached the binnacle, he raised his eyes and motioned me to him.
• Then movement came to me, and I jumped to the binnacle and snatched out the lamp.
• In my left hand I held the still burning binnacle lamp.
• The dim light of the binnacle lamp touched the compass, but everything else was dark and the windows were down.
• The bulwarks, boats, and binnacle were carried clean off, and the mainmast had to be cut away.
• On the bridge she touched with childish enthusiasm the large brass hood of the binnacle and other steering instruments glistening as though made of gold.
• The captain, his elbows on the binnacle, still watched the distant brig.
• As to the direction we have been going in, it is always the same, and I have been able to verify this by casual glances at the binnacle.
• The steering-gear leaked steam, and in the confined space the glass of the binnacle made a shiny oval of light in a thin white fog.
• As soon as I had changed my clothes I went up on to the platform, and, a prey to conflicting emotions, I sat down near the binnacle.
• Robinson being full of anxiety and impatience, and watching the compass for a shift of wind as if he was a cat and there was a mouse in the binnacle.
• Sometimes he halted in front of the binnacle lamp to make certain that the man at the wheel was keeping the course, South 15 West, set by Captain Coke shortly before midnight.
• So our distracted Philip pulled himself up sharply, paced back and forth between port and starboard, and surveyed ship, binnacle, and horizon with alert vigilance.
• One was placed in the binnacle, under the eyes of the man at the helm.
• Henceforth he was reduced to trust solely to the compass in the binnacle.
• Aft, the light from the binnacle only gave a faint gleam, which the metallic apparatus of the wheel reflected softly.
• Arrived aft, the head cook placed under the binnacle a pretty heavy object which he held in hand.
• If, the next day, Dick Sand had perceived that object placed by Negoro under the binnacle, he might have hastened to take it away.
• Suddenly, in a violent rolling of the ship, Negoro fell, and he would, doubtless, have been thrown into the sea if he had not held on to the binnacle.
• Negoro had already risen, but he held in his hand the piece of iron which he had just taken from under the binnacle, and he hid it before Dick Sand could see it.
• At those words Dick Sand, in the greatest anxiety, leaned over the binnacle.
• Kloots was at the binnacle, Hillebrant and Philip at the helm, when a wave curled high over the quarter, and poured itself in resistless force upon the deck.
• She lay quiet in the water without a tangible sign of life except her binnacle lights.
• The captain passed every minute from the binnacle to the standard compass, taking the bearings of objects on shore.
• One wave washed overboard the compass and its binnacle.
• The flat sea was dazzling with reflected sunshine, and a shade had to be erected over the binnacle for the man at the wheel.
• When one bell struck, the officer left his post, and the conspirators walked up to the binnacle in the waist.

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