(US, rail transport) The last car on a freight train, consisting of cooking and sleeping facilities for the crew; a guard’s van.
A tremendous billow, fringed with foam, swept over our deck, carrying the cook's caboose, cooking utensils and stove right overboard into the sea.
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(historic, nautical) A small sand-filled container used as an oven on board ship.
This stove is to be made in the form of a Franklin, but is to be furnished with an oven, and other means of cooking; its appearance is therefore more like that of the old fashioned caboose, than of a Franklin stove.
“Please, please, please can we see that sweet caboose?”
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(obsolete, nautical) A small galley or cookhouse on the deck of a small vessel.
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