caboosen.
/kəˈbuːs/, U.S. /kəˈbus/ 1.
a. ‘The cook-room or kitchen of merchantmen on deck; a diminutive substitute for the galley of a man-of-war. It is generally furnished with cast-iron apparatus for cooking’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck superstructure > deckhouse > types of
summercastle1345
summer-hutch1420
poop1551
roundhouse1611
caboose1747
hurricane-house1818
wheelhouse1835
storm-house1836
pilothouse1842
Texas1853
Liverpool house1869
monkey forecastle1870
1747 Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. XLVI. 91 They shipp'd a sea which carried overboard..their boat and carpouse [sic].
1747 Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. XLVI. 91 Another [heavy sea] carried away their boat, cabbouze and one carriage gun.
1766 Boston Evening Post 10 Nov. (Thornton) 'Twas imagined she took fire at sea, as her cabouse was burnt.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Coboose, a sort of box or house to cover the chimney of some merchant-ships. It is somewhat resembling a centry-box, and generally stands against the barricade on the fore part of the quarter-deck.
1805 N.Y. Chron. in Naval Chron. 13 122 William Cameron drifted aboard on the canboose.
1805 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. IV. 70 A sea broke..and swept away the caboose and all its utensils from the deck.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. i. 8 Fishing-boats at anchor..all with their tiny cabooses.
1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 341 A sentry is constantly to be placed at the cooking-place or caboose.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xliii. 375 The caboose and utensils must long ago have been washed overboard.
b. A cooking-oven or fireplace erected on land. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] > oven > other types of oven
broiling-iron1562
broil-iron1567
apple roaster1637
bread oven1745
pot-oven1750
Dutch oven1769
caboose1779
roaster1796
gas oven1810
kitchen1826
tandoor1840
water oven1848
ti-oven1896
roaster oven1940
1779 Remembrancer 8 297 2 cambouses.
1786 Maryland Jrnl. 23 June (Thornton) For Sale, One elegant patent caboose.
1805 M. Lewis & Clarke Trav. (1817) I. 217 When the blacksmith cut up an old cambouse of sheet iron.
1837 C. F. Briggs Harry Franco II. vi. 71 A camboose factory.
1859 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy (ed. 4) 93 The man..requested me to put his pannikin on the caboose fire.
1882 Harper's Mag. Feb. 331 Outside are ‘cambooses’ for preparing fish in the open air.
1883 Cent. Mag. 26 550 The lawn is studded with cabooses.
2. U.S. A van or car on a freight train used by workmen or the men in charge. Also attributive.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > van used by workmen or crew
service car1841
caboose1861
buggy1899
1861 H. Dawson Reminisc. Life Locomotive Engineer 90 Another midnight ride in the ‘Caboose’ of a freight train.
1862 Ashcroft's Railway Directory 76 No. of Caboose Cars [on the Central Railroad of New Jersey], 6.
1869 Chicago Tribune 10 Mar. A caboose car, hitched on to a freight train.
1871 S. de Vere Americanisms (1872) 343 The ship's caboose..has lent its mutilated name..to a small railroad-car, used for various special purposes, and not known on English railways.
1871 P. T. Barnum Struggles & Triumphs 679 If you can stand it to ride to Fort Wayne in the caboose of a freight train.
1881 Chicago Times 18 June The caboose of the construction train, containing workmen and several boys.
1884 Dakota paper Jan. Four cars and a caboose running down the track.
1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ ii. 24 ‘Did you make the train?’ ‘Caught the caboose just as she was swinging out.’
1903 New York Evening Post 25 Aug. The rest of the crew..saw from the caboose windows the bodies..lying along the tracks.
1926 J. Black You can't Win xvii. 234 The boy hid between box cars while I went to the top of the caboose.
3.
a. A hut or poor dwelling. Chiefly North American.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun]
hulka1000
boothc1200
hull?c1225
lodge1290
hottea1325
holetc1380
tavern1382
scalea1400
schura1400
tugury1412
donjon?a1439
cabinc1440
coshc1490
cabinet1579
bully1598
crib1600
shed1600
hut1637
hovela1640
boorachc1660
barrack1686
bothy1750
corf1770
rancho1819
shanty1820
kraal1832
shelty1834
shackle1835
mia-mia1837
wickiup1838
caboose1839
chantier1849
hangar1852
caban1866
shebang1867
humpy1873
shack1878
hale1885
bach1927
jhuggi1927
favela1961
hokkie1973
1839 Congress. Globe 15 Feb. App. 343/1 We have a postmaster in our village..and in his little caboose of a post office I found electioneering interferences.
1874 V. Pyke Adventures G. W. Pratt (1890) i. iii. 13 It's a darned wrong thing to allow in your caboose, mister.
1916 G. Parker World for Sale xxiv. 308 ‘He's been lying drunk at Gautry's caboose ever since yesterday morning..’ ‘Gautry's tavern—that joint.’
b. A mobile hut or bunk-house, moved on wheels or runners. Canadian.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > caravan
cart-house1603
caravan1805
house wagon1833
wagon1851
house trailer1885
caboose1912
mobile home1934
travel trailer1936
trailer home1940
static caravan1947
Dormobile1952
caravette1953
trailer house1954
motor home1961
double-wide1966
static1980
1912 E. F. Murphy Open Trails 106 In the later winter one sees..a caboose on a sled, heading for the Peace River district or for some point up north. This is a comfortable way of travelling, and on arriving at his claim the homesteader shifts the caboose to the ground and uses it for a house.
1954 A. M. Bezanson Sodbusters invade Peace xiv. 90 Our honeymoon trip was to be made in a caboose—a part-lumber part-canvas house built on a farm sleigh.
c. = calaboose n. slang (originally U.S.).
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]
quarternOE
prisona1200
jailc1275
lodgec1290
galleya1300
chartrea1325
ward1338
keepingc1384
prison-house1419
lying-house1423
javel1483
tollbooth1488
kidcotec1515
clinkc1530
warding-place1571
the hangman's budget1589
Newgate1592
gehenna1594
Lob's pound1597
caperdewsie1599
footman's inn1604
cappadochio1607
pena1640
marshalsea1652
log-house1662
bastille1663
naskin1673
state prison1684
tronk1693
stone-doublet1694
iron or stone doublet1698
college1699
nask1699
quod1699
shop1699
black hole1707
start1735
coop1785
blockhouse1796
stone jug1796
calaboose1797
factory1806
bull-pen1809
steel1811
jigger1812
jug1815
kitty1825
rock pile1830
bughouse1842
zindan1844
model1845
black house1846
tench1850
mill1851
stir1851
hoppet1855
booby hatch1859
caboose1865
cooler1872
skookum house1873
chokey1874
gib1877
nick1882
choker1884
logs1888
booby house1894
big house1905
hoosegow1911
can1912
detention camp1916
pokey1919
slammer1952
joint1953
slam1960
1865 Republican Banner (Nashville, Tennessee) 12 Oct. 3/2 The ‘caboose’ is neatly packed with ‘pickled’ offenders of municipal law.
1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 21 Caboose... On shore it meant prison.
1939 These are our Lives (Federal Writers' Project, U.S.) 346 If they put me in the caboose for cruelty to roaches and water bugs.
4. (See quot.)
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1920 J. M. Hunter Trail Drivers of Texas 213 Under a camp wagon is usually suspended an old cowhide called the ‘caboose’, and in that we throw stray pieces of wood, [etc.].
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