Wheelhorse vs Wheelhouse - What's the difference?
wheelhorse | wheelhouse |
A person who labors heavily for a particular cause, without being concerned about recognition
*{{quote-book, 1997, David Backes, A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson
, passage=He was a wheelhorse , a tower of strength, to the Park Service and to the forces that were trying to establish new parks, seashores, canoe wildernesses, and other reservations during the Kennedy and Johnson years.}}
(nautical) An enclosed compartment, on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge or pilothouse
(nautical) The enclosed structure around side paddlewheels on a steamboat.
The best part of a batter's swing
(general slang) A person's expertise
As nouns the difference between wheelhorse and wheelhouse
is that wheelhorse is a person who labors heavily for a particular cause, without being concerned about recognition while wheelhouse is an enclosed compartment, on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge or pilothouse.wheelhorse
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(en noun)- The pitch was right in his wheelhouse , and he hit a salami.