cookhouse

[ kook-hous ]

noun

, plural cook·hous·es [kook, -hou-ziz].

1. a building or place for cooking, especially a camp kitchen.

cookhouse

/ ˈkʊkˌhaʊs /

noun

1. a place for cooking, esp a camp kitchen

Word History and Origins

Origin of cookhouse¹

First recorded in 1785–95; cook ¹ + house

Example Sentences

We endeavoured to get cookhouse jobs for the pickings to be had, but could not do so.

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I found him, as I expected, hanging round the cookhouse, and taxed him with his neglect of duty.

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Before each meal I would run to the cookhouse before they ran out of hot water, and run back before it got cold.

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We saw the wagon coming and all rushed down to the cookhouse to climb up and look in the wagon.

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Once a day they gave each of us a cup of soup which was all that they prepared in the cookhouse at this camp.

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