cookhouse

[ kook-hous ]

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noun,plural cook·hous·es

[kook-hou-ziz]. /ˈkʊkˌhaʊ zɪz/.

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

Origin of cookhouse

First recorded in 1785–95; cook¹ + house

Words Nearby cookhouse

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How to use cookhouse in a sentence

We endeavoured to get cookhouse jobs for the pickings to be had, but could not do so.
The Escape of a Princess Pat | George Pearson
I found him, as I expected, hanging round the cookhouse, and taxed him with his neglect of duty.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 9, 1919 | Various
Before each meal I would run to the cookhouse before they ran out of hot water, and run back before it got cold.
The Biography of a Rabbit | Roy Benson
We saw the wagon coming and all rushed down to the cookhouse to climb up and look in the wagon.
The Biography of a Rabbit | Roy Benson
Once a day they gave each of us a cup of soup which was all that they prepared in the cookhouse at this camp.
The Biography of a Rabbit | Roy Benson

British Dictionary definitions for cookhouse

cookhouse

/ (ˈkʊkˌhaʊs) /

noun

a place for cooking, esp a camp kitchen

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