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caboose The last car on a freight train. The first recorded use in this way occurred in the first year of the war. The word had previously been used, and still is in Britain, for a kitchen in a ship, its original meaning in Dutch.

From "The Language of the Civil War" by John D. Wright page 50.
 
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