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The area for food preparation on a ship
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cookhouse
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A sack of empty tins lay beside each aircraft: accumulated cookhouse waste. ▪ At 0630 hours the first of the early risers entered the cookhouse for breakfast. ▪ No fuss or bother let the cookhouse with the mess. ▪ The cookhouse ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small house where cooking takes place; a kitchen house.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the area for food preparation on a ship [syn: galley , ship's galley , caboose ] a detached or outdoor shelter for cooking; "the circus used a tent as their cookhouse"
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Cookhouse is a small village located in Eastern Cape province, South Africa , some north of Port Elizabeth and east of Somerset East , on the west bank of the Great Fish River , which formed the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony until 1819. It is said ...
Usage examples of cookhouse.
At the turn of the century, South Rockingham was all ranchland, flat fields planted to beans and walnuts, harvested by itinerant crews who traveled with steam engines, cookhouses, and bedroll wagons.
One did not get any more gyrations or obtain them any sooner by this, but it was a relief, and a change to walk the half square outside the prison to the cookhouse, and help carry the rations back.
One of us would go to the cookhouse in a Range Rover and pick up some tea in Norwegians and the packed lunches-brown paper bags that contained a typical school lunch of soggy rolls, Yorkie bar, and crisps.
The workers had returned from the bush, and smoke went up from the cookhouses of the little settlement.
The Rebel Masons interested themselves in securing details outside the Stockade in the cookhouse, the commissary, and elsewhere, for the brethren among the prisoners who would accept such favors.
Hearing that language, his mother comes a-running from the cookhouse and whaps his head with her wood ladle.
The atmosphere inside the main base was very smoky, and at any time of night or day I could smell the odor of egg banjos (fried egg sandwiches) and chips coming from the cookhouse.
This one wanted to send me a daily newsletter from Washington, all inside stuff, straight from the cookhouse.