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camboose camp Hist.

• 1 a camp at which logging (def. 2) is carried on.

  See also: camboose (def. 3)  logging (def. 2)  shanty ((n.)) (def. 2)  

  • 1947  (1963)  These shanties were built with a "camboose" in the centre, and came to be known as camboose camps.
  • 1961  Associated with this museum is the Algonquin Provincial Park Logging Exhibit . . . [which] includes a full-size replica of a logging shanty or "camboose camp". . . .

• 2 a logging camp.

  See also: camboose (def. 4)  logging camp  shanty ((n.)) (def. 3a)  

  • 1947  The author . . . has been at pains to describe minutely life in the camboose camps of the lumbering days. . . .
  • 1964  In the fall the teams would move up the line toward the limits where the camboose camp was being built for the winter.