cambouse
English edit
Noun edit
cambouse (plural cambouses)
- 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.