sleeping-caboose

West, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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

See: caboose(def. 4a)

Quotations

1963

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