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camboose
[< Cdn F < F cambuse, store, hut, galley]
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:cambuse
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1†n.
a stove, used by voyageurs, explorers, etc.
See: caboose(def. 1)
See the note at caboose.
Quotations
1835
He sold a . . . ship's cooking Camboose half worn for 2 [beaver].
2n.
an open fireplace in the living quarters of a lumber camp.
Quotations
1883
It requires very considerable mechanical ingenuity . . . to construct the camboose and the opening in the roof immediately above it. . . .
1891
. . . the fireplace . . . has . . . the very queer name of "camboose ". . . .
1947
The fireplace, the actual "camboose," was built on a square foundation of stone and sand.
1964
The central fireplace or "cambuse" was the remarkable feature of the shanty. Beneath a large hole in the roof, a roaring fire burned day and night from November to April. . . .
3n.
a camp at which logging (def. 2) is carried on. See picture at shanty.
Quotations
1923
He had heard talk around the camboose, and at noon in the still, snowy pine woods . . . that the man who married Marie-Louise must be a better man than her father.
1964
A camboose was made of the forest at hand, of large pine logs for the sides and "scooped" cedar for the roof.
4n.
a camboose camp (def. 2).
Quotations
1960
The lumbermen of legend, mackinaw-clad, hobnail-shod, this was the lumberjack of the Ottawa; the Spartan life of the camboose, the giant drive, the roistering plague of Quebec. . . .
5n.
on a lumber raft, a simple shed, often without walls, having a floor of deep sand and used as a sheltered fireplace for cooking purposes.
See: caboose(def. 2a)
Quotations
1963
On the [Ottawa] river the men lived on rafts of square-cut logs, with a small cookhouse, called the "caribouse," [sic] in the centre of each.