Usage examples (9)

• Along the mess-table of the galley -- or the "camboose," as the yacht's cook insisted upon calling it -- were ranged three gentlemen of color, each of whom treated his...
• Crouching under the lee of the camboose, the young skipper found
• The camboose-house went also, at the last of these terrific seas; and nothing saved the camboose itself, but its great weight, added to the strength of its...
• My office was to be that of cook -- by no means a very difficult task in that craft, the camboose consisting of two pots set in bricks, and the dishes being very simple.