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bogie n also bogey, bogy [phonetics unavailable]. PARTRIDGE bogy 4 'a
stove for heating'; SND ~ 1 'cooking galley on a fishing boat (1916);
DC Nfld (1916-). A small stove used originally on a fishing schooner; applied
generally to any small coal- or wood-burning stove.
1870 HOWLEY
MS Reminiscences 36 We now managed to get a fire in the bogy, change our clothes
and make ourselves as comfortable as possible under the circumstances... We set the watch
for the night [on the vessel) all hands remaining up. [1894 BURKE] 11 And then drop in to
Callahan's / [For] a bogie for the schooner, / Like an artist it can draw. 1897 J A
Folklore ix, 204 ~ a small cabin stove used on board fishing schooners. 1901
Christmas Review 19 Our new bogie, one meeting night, refused to do
duty—whether it was the fault of the funnelling or the atmosphere I cannot say. 1912
DUNCAN 86 'Grand times in the for'c's'le that night! A warm fire in the bogey-stove!'
1924 ENGLAND 29 A coal fire roared in the glowing bogey, and a certain warmth had begun
to dispel the clammy cold. 1925 Dial Notes v, 326 Bogey—a small square stove
[on sealing ship]. 1937 DEVINE 10 ~ A small stove used in schooners' cabins and
forecastles, also in small houses and tilts. T 246/7-66 You'd have a little bogie made
would be a old kettle perhaps with the side out of it. 1979 TIZZARD 94 The front thwart
was boarded in underneath and here was kept the bogie wood and other commodities needed
to be kept from getting wet.
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