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It brings up the rear
Answer for the clue "It brings up the rear ", 7 letters:
caboose
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Caboose (also camboose, coboose, cubboos derived from the Dutch kombuis ) is a term used for a small ship's kitchen , i.e. galley , located on an open deck. At one time a caboose related to a smaller kitchen aboard a merchantman , while aboard a warship ...
Usage examples of caboose.
By the time the brakie with his lantern had reached the caboose at the rear of the train, The Shadow was once more inside the tank car.
Why, I have seen him start to say something to my engineer pulling out of Mankato, and he would finish it just as the caboose went by, and we had some forty cars in the train at that.
Throughout the passage, subjects and verbs come early - like the locomotive and coal car of a railroad train - saving other interesting words for the end - like a caboose.
Two thousand people gathered, while men who had blackened their faces with coal dust set about methodically tearing up tracks, jamming switches, derailing cars, setting fire to cabooses and also to a railroad bridge.
Brass Babboon squealed to a stop, its impertinent grin a few inches from its improbable caboose, Dubhe fired the salute.
Only some eight or ten were sent to the train, and these quartered themselves in the caboose, and paid us no further attention.
Though we were running along within fifteen or twenty miles of the coast, with all our guards asleep in the caboose, no one thought of escape.
Hawkins had begun to look a little green beneath his natural deep tan, but he drove on, the HUM-V making the caboose of their little train.
I was just having tea with a group of fellow scholars in the caboose, when the winds of change swept me up and dropped me here!
At 100 miles away you're heated up to 2,000,000 degrees Kelvin, which is, needless to say, Snuff City as far as your caboose is concerned.
An express car, a baggage car, a passenger car and five freight cars, as well as a caboose.
The flatcars and caboose were rolling back down the grade, but the grade would not last forever.
Everbe and Otis got down from the caboose of a freight train which stopped that long at Par-sham a few minutes before noon.
The caboose sat on a concrete pad and two rails off a frontage road beside the state highway, in a region of low hills covered with maples and dogwood.
The four crewmen who ran the caboose were not evil men, but when they had gone after the hobos they had swung their bats with actual glee, as if knocking helpless men over the head were sport.