BINNACLE

PRONUNCIATION -- (BI-ni-kuhl)

MEANING: noun: A container for housing instruments on a ship’s deck, in a car dashboard, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old Portuguese bitácola or Old Spanish bitácula, from Latin habitaculum (dwelling place), from habitare (to inhabit). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghabh- (to give or to receive), which is also the source of give, gift, able, habit, prohibit, due, duty, adhibit, debenture, habile. Earliest documented use: 1622.
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BIRNACLE - a container into which fits the mouthpiece-with-reed of a musical instrument such as a clarinet

BINANACLE - a frozen fruit-flavored confection, typically on two sticks

SINNACLE filled with a contemptuous disbelief in human goodness and sincerity