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Definitions of caboose in various dictionaries:
noun - the area for food preparation on a ship
noun - a car on a freight train for use of the train crew
The last car on a freight train, having kitchen and sleeping facilities for the train crew.
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| This car once served as the conductor's office on a freight train but is now rarely seen |
| In Britain, it's a kitchen on a ship's deck; in the U.S., it's traditionally the last car on a freight train |
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| a small railway carriage, usually at the back of a train |
| A railway wagon with accommodation for the train crew, typically attached to the end of the train. |
| A kitchen on a ship's deck. |
| a car on a freight train for use of the train crew usually the last car on the train |
| the area for food preparation on a ship |
| The last car on a freight train, having kitchen and sleeping facilities for the train crew. |
| Obsolete A ship's galley. |
| Obsolete Any of various cast-iron cooking ranges used in such galleys during the early 19th century. |
| Obsolete An outdoor oven or fireplace. |
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A caboose is a manned North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. Cabooses provide shelter for crew at the end of a train, who were long required for switching and shunting, and to keep a lookout for load shifting, damage to equipment and cargo, and overheating axles. * Originally flatcars fitted with cabins or modified box cars, they later became purpose-built with projections above or to the sides of the car to allow crew to observe the train from shelter. The caboose also served as the conductor's office, and on long routes included accommodation and cooking facilities. * A similar railroad car design, the brake van, was used on British and Commonwealth railways. These provided the additional function of serving as a supplemental braking system for trains not fitted with a continuous braking system, and keeping chain couplings taut. * Cabooses were used on every freight train until the 1980s, when safety laws requiring the presence of cabooses and full crews were re |