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caboose    音标拼音: [kəb'us]
n. (载货火车最后一节的)守车,轮船上的厨房

(载货火车最後一节的)守车,轮船上的厨房

caboose
n 1: the area for food preparation on a ship [synonym: {galley},
{ship's galley}, {caboose}, {cookhouse}]
2: a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually
the last car on the train [synonym: {cabin car}, {caboose}]

Galley \Gal"ley\, n.; pl. {Galleys}. [OE. gale, galeie (cf. OF.
galie, gal['e]e, LL. galea, LGr. ?; of unknown origin.]
1. (Naut.) A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts
and sails or not; as:
(a) A large vessel for war and national purposes; --
common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th
century.
(b) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other
ancient vessels propelled by oars.
(c) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse
officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure.
(d) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war.
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Note: The typical galley of the Mediterranean was from one
hundred to two hundred feet long, often having twenty
oars on each side. It had two or three masts rigged
with lateen sails, carried guns at prow and stern, and
a complement of one thousand to twelve hundred men, and
was very efficient in mediaeval warfare. Galleons,
galliots, galleasses, half galleys, and quarter galleys
were all modifications of this type.
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2. The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel;
-- sometimes on merchant vessels called the {caboose}.
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3. (Chem.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of
retorts; a gallery furnace.
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4. [F. gal['e]e; the same word as E. galley a vessel.]
(Print.)
(a) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides,
for holding type which has been set, or is to be made
up, etc.
(b) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a
galley proof.
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{Galley slave}, a person condemned, often as a punishment for
crime, to work at the oar on board a galley. "To toil like
a galley slave." --Macaulay.

{Galley slice} (Print.), a sliding false bottom to a large
galley. --Knight.
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Caboose \Ca*boose"\ (k[.a]*b[=oo]s"), n. [Cf. D. kabuis,
kombuis, Dan. kabys, Sw. kabysa, G. kabuse a little room or
hut. The First part of the word seems to be allied to W. cab
cabin, booth. Cf. {Cabin}.] [Written also {camboose}.]
1. (Naut.) A house on deck, where the cooking is done; --
commonly called the {galley}.
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2. (Railroad) A car used on freight or construction trains as
travelling quarters for brakemen, workmen, etc.; a tool
car. It usually is the last car of the train. [U. S.]
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49 Moby Thesaurus words for "caboose":
Pullman, Pullman car, baggage car, bakehouse, bakery, boxcar,
camboose, car, carriage, chair car, coach, coal car, cookery,
cookhouse, cookroom, covered waggon, cuisine, day coach, diner,
dinghy, dining car, drawing room, flat, flatcar, galley, gondola,
kitchen, kitchenette, local, luggage van, mail car, mail van,
palace car, parlor car, passenger car, railway car, reefer,
refrigerator car, roomette, scullery, sleeper, smoker, smoking car,
stockcar, tank, tender, truck, van, waggon



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