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Volume 5 · 48 words · 1797 Edition

in sea-language, is derived from the Dutch kambuis, and denotes a sort of box, resembling a fenny-box, used to cover the chimneys of some merchant ships. It generally stands against the barricade, on the fore-part of the quarter deck. It is called in the West Indies cobre vega.