camboose fire

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an open fireplace in the living quarters of a lumber camp.

Quotations

1883

[They] became as cool and self-collected in these mazy depths of the forest, as if they stood by their own camboose fire.

1961

At night the camboose fire supplied the only light.