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 caboose [kә'bu:s]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. (载货火车的)守车, 轮船上的厨房



    caboose
    [ noun ]
    1. the area for food preparation on a ship

    2. <noun.artifact>
    3. a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train

    4. <noun.artifact>


    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}.

    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.]
    [1913 Webster +PJC]

    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.

    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.

    2. The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel;
    -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the {caboose}.

    3. (Chem.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of
    retorts; a gallery furnace.

    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.

    {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.

    1. Paying some trainmen an extra day's wages if they start a run on a train pulling a caboose with a burned-out light bulb.
    2. The caboose and a few cars are still usable, but the track and track bed need replacing and the locomotive must be rebuilt, with parts impossible to find, said Kintzele.
    3. The railroads also say federal law governing the efficient interstate transportation of hazardous materials pre-empts the caboose law.
    4. The engine, 19 cars and a caboose fell 30 feet from a railroad bridge in 1878, when a flood struck the area 30 miles east of Denver.
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