- Joined
- May 12, 2010
- Location
- Now Florida but always a Kentuckian
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.
From "The Language of the Civil War" by John D. Wright page 50.