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caboose
1747, "ship's cookhouse," from M.Du.
kambuis
"ship's galley," from Low Ger.
kabhuse
"wooden cabin on ship's deck;" probably a compound whose elements correspond to English
cabin
and
house
. Railroading sense is by 1859.
