caboose (kabos)

[Also coboose; G. ka buse ) = Dan. kabys = Sw. kabysa; also E. cam boose, The lawn is studded with cabooses , over one of which a Councillor may be seen carefully skimming the water covering his twelve-pound salmon. The Century , XXVI. 550. 2. A car for the use of the conductor, brakemen, etc., on a freight-train. [U. S.] cabos (ka-bos'), n. [See caboc he.] A name of the eel-pout.