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Cookhouse

noun
1.
The area for food preparation on a ship.  Synonyms: caboose, galley, ship's galley.
2.
A detached or outdoor shelter for cooking.





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"Cookhouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... moment, for I have happened to be orderly officer once or twice lately; in other words I have been a sort of detective housekeeper. The first thing I have to do is to see that everybody gets up at reveille—a charity, Charles, which has to begin at home. But it is at the cookhouse that I am supposed to have my most deadly effect. You can see me paying visits en surprise, all the cooks springing to attention and the very potatoes in the dixies trying to look as if they weren't doing anything wrong! The pleasing ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 • Various
... no sooner out of my mouth than a shell shrieking into our own cookhouse, drove us like ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond


Words linked to "Cookhouse" :   shelter, ship, cuddy, kitchen


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