1. A structure enclosing a large wheel, e.g., a water-wheel; spec. a house or superstructure containing the steering-wheel, a pilot-house; also, the paddle-box of a steam-boat.
1850. B. Taylor, Eldorado, i. (1862), 3. On the morning of July 5th, I took a station on the wheel-house.
1883. Gresley, Gloss. Coal-Mining, 285.
1892. J. S. Fletcher, When Chas. I. was King, I. 52. I passed above the mill at Wentbridge, where the stream was pouring through the wheel-house like a cataract.
2. A building in which cart-wheels are stored.
1813. Vancouver, Agric. Devon, 472. The wheel-house under the barn, 25 feet square.
