Wheelhouse Explained

Wheelhouse or Wheel-house may refer to:

Architecture

• Wheelhouse (archaeology), a prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland
• A building or portion of a building that contains a water wheel
  • Radstube, a building or underground chamber in a mine housing a water wheel

Transport on water

• Bridge (nautical), also known as a pilothouse, the location of the ship's wheel of a boat or ship
• The covering or housing of a paddle wheel in a paddle steamer also known as the paddle-box

Transport on land

• Wheelhouse or wheel well, the part of a vehicle body surrounding one of the wheels, typically a fender or a smaller part attached to the inner surface of the fender
• A turntable (rail)-like device which allows wagons to switch tracks
• Doolittle Maintenance and Storage Facility, used for Bay Area Rapid Transit's Beige Line which goes by the nickname of "the Wheelhouse"

Sport

• In baseball jargon: The sweet spot of a baseball player's strike zone where the most power and strength can be utilized
• An English language idiom derived from the baseball jargon, meaning area of knowledge

Music

• Wheelhouse (album), a 2013 album by Brad Paisley
• Wheelhouse Records, an imprint of BBR Music Group

Other uses

• Wheelhouse (surname)
• Wheelhouse Magazine, an online progressive arts and politics magazine
• Wheelhouse Maritime Museum, museum run by the Underwater Society of Ottawa