Texas Definition
tĕksəs
noun
A structure on the hurricane deck of a river steamboat, containing the officers' quarters and having the pilothouse atop or immediately in front of it.
Webster's New World
The top-most cabin deck on a steamboat.
1866: New Albany Ledger, October 6 (describing the steamboat Robert E. Lee)She has sixty one staterooms in the main cabin, twenty four extra rooms in the texas for passengers, a nursery for servants and children, and a cabin adjoining the nursery in which are staterooms for fifty passengers.
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Synonyms:
- tx
- lone-star-state
- Longhorn State
- Jumbo State
pronoun
A game played with a set of common double-six dominoes.
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Other Word Forms of Texas
Noun
Singular:
texas
Plural:
texasesOrigin of Texas
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From Spanish Texas (also Tejas), from Hasinai Caddo táyshaÊ” (“friend, ally"), used to refer to the Caddo nation.
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After Texas (from the fact that steamboat cabins were named after states and the officers' quarters were the largest)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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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