cambouse

English

Noun

cambouse (plural cambouses)

  1. Alternative form of caboose
    • 1832, Owen Chase, chapter 9, in Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex …:
      On the second day out, while sailing moderately on our course in the Gulf Stream, a sudden squall of wind struck the ship from the SW. and knocked her completely on her beam-ends, stove one of our boats, entirely destroyed two others, and threw down the cambouse.
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