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Caboose (also ''camboose, coboose, cubboos'' derived from the Dutch ''kombuis'') is a term used for a small ship's kitchen, i.e. galley, located on an open deck. At one time a ''caboose'' related to a smaller kitchen aboard a merchantman, while aboard a warship it was called a ''galley''.〔''A Naval Encyclopaedia: comprising a dictionary of nautical words and phrases; biographical notices, and records of naval officers''; special articles on naval art and science, written expressly for this work by officers and others of recognized authority in the branches treated by them. Together with descriptions of the principal naval stations and seaports of the world. Lewis R. Hammersly & Co, Philadelphia, 1881.〕 William Falconer's 1780 ''A Universal Dictionary of the Marine'' describes a caboose thus: "a sort of box or house to cover the chimney of some merchant-ships. It somewhat resembles a sentry-box, and generally stands against the barricade on the fore part of the quarter-deck". Sometimes the caboose was portable. Prior to the introduction of the caboose the furnaces for cooking were, aboard three-deckers, placed on the middle deck, and aboard two-decked ships in the forecastle. In Canada a caboose was formerly used to describe a galley on a timber raft.〔''Collins English Dictionary'' – Complete and Unabridged, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003〕 The term was sometimes also applied to the cast-iron stove used for cooking on deck〔〔''Webster's Third Unabridged Dictionary''〕 or in galleys during the early 19th century, as well as an outdoor oven or fireplace.〔''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'', Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company.〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caboose (ship's galley)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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