texas

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Above the texas was the pilot-house, and on either side, well forward of the pilot-house and towering abreast of each other and above all else--higher than the two soaring derrick posts at the two forward corners of the passenger and hurricane decks, higher even than the jack-staff's peak--stood the two great black chimneys And what a populace teemed round and through all!

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

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  • About me: born in 1978 fort worth texas, adopted moved to midland tx 1985, made my debut in the streets
  • Note the recovery in Louisiana along the coast is far from complete. entergy-texas. com / outages / tx. aspx does not cover the city of Houston proper, and only has a corner of Texas to the east of Ike's likely landfall. sign in (if you're already a member). —  Edward Vielmetti is inviting you to A2B3 lunch on Thursday at Eastern Accents in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
  • Tenlons F (7: 33: 54 PM): well texas, my familys there, lived there from 1-18years of age, the texas lakes, id throw a stick for my dog and i to swim for hours, the austin music scene is great, and just explodes during south by, and its laid back, austin is mathew mchoughney, man ...... —  Radio Free Silver Lake
  • Please read this post left on Friday by: joe rand, dallas, texas (Sent Friday, April 10, 2009 6: 06 PM) under the heading GOP DESPERATELY SEEKING MR. POPULAR. —  First Read
  • In the past few months I have discovered that most viruses and scams are coming from texas, canada and arizona. —  GigaOM
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  1. After Texas (from the fact that steamboat cabins were named after states and the officers' quarters were the largest).

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  1. So called in allusion to the State of Texas.
 

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