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cook car

noun

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  1. A horse-pulled wagon used to provide food for threshing crews.

    • I was once marooned for two weeks in Dakota during a rainy spell on a farm, slept in a leaky barn, ate in a cook car and shivered the rest of the time.
    • Fortunately the cook car was close to the bunkhouse or we might have gone hungry during the three days, marooned by snow and cold.
    • In a good season we put in as many as 50 days on a cook car. Threshing machines and cook cars are a thing of the past since combines have taken over in the big wheat fields.

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