cook-carとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cook car (plural cook cars)

1. A horse-pulled wagon used to provide food for threshing crews.
   • 1929, Intui Layman, “The Birth of the Hobo”, in Social Science, volume 5, number 1, →JSTOR, page 32:

     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.

   • 1930, Robert L. Yates, When I Was A Harvester, The Macmillan Company, page 138:

     Fortunately the cook car was close to the bunkhouse or we might have gone hungry during the three days, marooned by snow and cold.

   • 1986, Elizabeth Yoder Woodiwiss, “Homesteading on the Prairies”, in Mennonite Historical Bulletin, volume 47, number 4, page 2:

     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.

   • 1988, T. Eugene Barrows, “Thrashing in Montana at the Turn of the Century”, in Montana: The Magazine of Western History, volume 38, number 4, →JSTOR, page 66:

     These cook cars were homemade and made to suit the particular needs and size of the crew.