aft, texas, wheel, wheel something on/out, wheelhouse, pilot house. big wheel

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texas
Usage[edit]
The term became widely known after the publication of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. In the section in which Huck and Jim encounter a wrecked steamboat:

"... there ain't nothing to watch but the texas and the pilot-house; and do you reckon anybody's going to resk his life for a texas and a pilot-house such a night as this, when it's likely to break up and wash off down the river any minute?" Jim couldn't say nothing to that, so he didn't try.

— Mark Twain, The Annotated Huckleberry Finn : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade)^[4]

The texas is a structure or section of a steamboat that includes the pilothouse and the crew's quarters. It is located on the hurricane deck, which is also called the texas deck. This long, narrow cabin may be surmounted by the pilothouse.

Cropped image of Chippewa, focusing on the texas which is located just aft of the pilothouse

In this c.1925 postcard of the Toronto waterfront, the Canada Steamship Lines steamboatsChippewa and Toronto show differences in the texas which is just aft of the pilothouse on the upper texas-deck

2(wheel something on/out) informal Produce something that is unimpressive because it has been frequently seen or heard before:the old journalistic arguments have been wheeled out

texas

1. [名詞]
2. 1 〔米海事〕 (テキサスデッキ(texas deck)の上にある)高級船員用の甲板室.
3. 2 〔米海事〕 =texas deck.

［語源］

1857.Mississippi川の蒸気船には，各船室に州名が当てられていたが，高級船員室が最も広かったことから米国最大の州 TEXAS の名がつけられた







aft

1. [副詞] 〔海事〕 〔航空〕 船尾［尾翼］(の近く)で，船尾［尾翼］の方へ；後方に(abaft)，(船尾の)船長・高級船員の居室に；〈風が〉船の真後ろに［後ろから吹く］
   • fore and aft
   • 船首から船尾まで；(船内を)縦に
   • Stow the luggage aft.
   • 荷を船尾［機尾］に積み込め.

1. ━━ [形容詞] 〔海事〕 〔航空〕 船尾［尾翼］(の方)にある；後ろの.

［語源］

950年以前. 中期英語 afte，古期英語 æftan 後から=æf- 反対の+-t-意味不明の接辞+-an(「…からの運動」を表す接尾辞)；ギリシャ語 opís(s)ō「後に」と同語源

pilot house

noun

1. another term for wheelhouse (sense 1).

wheelhouse 

Pronunciation: /ˈwiːlhaʊs/ 

NOUN

1A part of a boat or ship serving as a shelter for the person at the wheel.

北美wheel 也指 big wheel

big wheel 

Pronunciation:

NOUN

1British A Ferris wheel.

Mark Twain
The study at Mark Twain's home in Elmira, N.Y., was designed to resemble the pilot house of a Mississippi steamboat.
Source: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/…/2010-03-14-elmira-new-york…