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Example sentences from the Web for cambooseWhen he awoke, he found a bright light blazing in the hut, and heard some one moving about the camboose. The Sea Lions|James Fenimore Cooper Much of that brought from home had been fairly used in the camboose, and in the stove originally set up in the hut. The Sea Lions|James Fenimore Cooper The excessive cold made us feel severely the want of a camboose, or fire place in the boat. A Voyage Round the World, from 1806 to 1812|Archibald Campbell When these duties were performed, a bustle was seen about the camboose, or large cooking stove, in which the meals were prepared. Jack in the Forecastle|John Sherburne Sleeper
A camboose for our fire was made, by sawing a cask in two, and filling it with gravel, and secured by lashing it to the mast. A Voyage Round the World, from 1806 to 1812|Archibald Campbell
noun (formerly, in Canada)a cabin built as living quarters for a gang of lumbermen an open fireplace in such a cabin Word Origin for cambooseC19: from Canadian French, from French cambuse hut, store, from Dutch kambuis Words nearby camboosecambist, cambium, Cambodia, Cambodian, cambogia, camboose, Camborne-Redruth, Cambrai, cambrel, Cambria, Cambrian Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |