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cook car 
a mobile cookhouse used by threshing crews, cat-swing crews, and other workers.
- 1922 So the threshing season wore on. We ate in a cook-car, slept in a "caboose," and worked from dawn until dark. Sometimes, to finish a "set" we would bum a straw pile and work by its light. . . .
- 1956 There would be either a sleeping car or a big stove-heated tent for the men to sleep in and the cook car to take care of their bodily needs.
- 1964 A cook car and two wagon loads of lumber . . . followed.
- 1922 So the threshing season wore on. We ate in a cook-car, slept in a "caboose," and worked from dawn until dark. Sometimes, to finish a "set" we would bum a straw pile and work by its light. . . .