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Want to find out what does the word caboose mean? We gathered all the possible definitions of the word caboose on our website. Our definition dictionary is updated all the time with new definitions and is ready to help you.

caboose

Part of speech: Noun

The kitchen of a ship; the trainmen's car attached to a freight train.

Usage examples "caboose":

As it was, the fall whirled him over and over, and by the time he had picked himself up the lighted caboose of the train was rocking past him. - "Gunman's Reckoning", Max Brand.
Then I saw that the fireman was also waving, and, farther back, the brakeman, from the top of a car, and the conductor from the " lookout" of the caboose. - "Down the Columbia", Lewis R. Freeman.
They had secured altogether above two hundredweight of old metal,- namely, a large piece of a ship's caboose, a hinge, a lock of a door, a ship's marking- iron, a soldier's bayonet, a cannon ball, a shoebuckle, and a small anchor, besides part of the cordage of the wreck, and the money and jewels before mentioned. - "The Lighthouse", Robert Ballantyne.