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sleeping-caboose West, Hist.

• n. a bunk-house, such as used by threshing crews, mounted on wheels in summer and on runners or bobs in winter.

  See also: caboose (def. 4a)  

  • 1963  Some outfits had sleeping-cabooses and fed their own men from a cook-wagon. . . .