caboose

ca·boose

C0006900 (kə-bo͞os′)n.1. The last car on a freight train, often having kitchen and sleeping facilities for the train crew, and used as a vantage point for spotting problems on the train, such as smoking brakes or the separation of cars. The introduction of electronic sensors has made the caboose unnecessary.2. Archaic a. A ship's galley.b. Any of various cast-iron cooking ranges used in such galleys during the early 1800s.c. An outdoor oven or fireplace.

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[Possibly from obsolete Dutch cabuse, ship's galley, from Middle Low German kabūse : perhaps *kab-, cabin; akin to Old French cabane; see cabin + Middle High German hūs, house.]

caboose

(kəˈbuːs) n1. informal US short for calaboose2. (Railways) railways US and Canadian a guard's van, esp one with sleeping and eating facilities for the train crew3. (Nautical Terms) nautical a. a deckhouse for a galley aboard ship or, formerly in Canada, on a lumber raftb. chiefly Brit the galley itself4. a. a mobile bunkhouse used by lumbermen, etcb. an insulated cabin on runners, equipped with a stove[C18: from Dutch cabūse, of unknown origin]

ca•boose

(kəˈbus)

n. 1. a car on a freight train, used chiefly as the crew's quarters and usu. attached to the rear of the train. 2. a ship's galley. [1740–50; < early modern Dutch cabūse (Dutch kabuis) ship's galley]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	caboose - the area for food preparation on a shipcookhouse, ship's galley, galleycuddy - the galley or pantry of a small shipkitchen - a room equipped for preparing mealsship - a vessel that carries passengers or freight
	2.	caboose - a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the traincabin carrailcar, railroad car, railway car, car - a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails"freight train, rattler - a railroad train consisting of freight cars

Translations

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