| 词汇 | caboose |
| 词源 | caboose. Before it became “the last car on a train,” a caboose, from the Dutch kombius, was a seaman’s term for a ship’s galley. The word went West in America to become the name for the cook wagon on the range and then became the car on a train carrying provisions. |
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