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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A structure on a river steamboat containing the pilothouse and the officers' quarters.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Hence The elevated gallery, resembling a louver or clearstory, in a grainelevator.
  • noun A structure on the hurricanedeck of a steamboat, containing the cabins for the officers. The pilot-house is on top of it.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Western U. S. A structure on the hurricane deck of a steamer, containing the pilot house, officers' cabins, etc.

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  • noun the top-most cabin deck on a steamboat

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Texas (from the fact that steamboat cabins were named after states and the officers' quarters were the largest).]

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From the practice of naming cabins after U.S. states, the state of Texas having been recently admitted to the Union.

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  • See this map for American pronunciation.

    April 11, 2008